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<h1>The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra</h1>

<section id="dramatis-personae"><h2>Dramatis Personae</h2>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="triumvirs.">
  <li>MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>SEXTUS POMPEIUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="friends to Antony.">
  <li>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li>EROS</li>
  <li>SCARUS</li>
  <li>DERCETAS</li>
  <li>DEMETRIUS</li>
  <li>PHILO</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="friends to Caesar.">
  <li>MECAENAS</li>
  <li>AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>THYREUS</li>
  <li>GALLUS</li>
  <li>MENAS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="friends to Pompey.">
  <li>MENECRATES</li>
  <li>VARRIUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>TAURUS, lieutenant-general to Caesar.</li>
  <li>CANIDIUS, lieutenant-general to Antony.</li>
  <li>SILIUS, an officer in Ventidius's army.</li>
  <li>EUPHRONIUS, an ambassador from Antony to Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="attendants on Cleopatra.">
  <li>ALEXAS</li>
  <li>MARDIAN, a Eunuch.</li>
  <li>SELEUCUS</li>
  <li>DIOMEDES</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>A Soothsayer. </li>
  <li>A Clown. </li>
  <li>CLEOPATRA, queen of Egypt.</li>
  <li>OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="attendants on Cleopatra.">
  <li>CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>IRAS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.</li>
</ol>

</section>

<div id="scene-description">SCENE  In several parts of the Roman empire.</div>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT I</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHILO</li>
  <li>Nay, but this dotage of our general's</li>
  <li>O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,</li>
  <li>That o'er the files and musters of the war</li>
  <li>Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,</li>
  <li class="number">The office and devotion of their view</li>
  <li>Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,</li>
  <li>Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst</li>
  <li>The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,</li>
  <li>And is become the bellows and the fan</li>
  <li class="number">To cool a gipsy's lust.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,
          the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her</li>
  <li>Look, where they come:</li>
  <li>Take but good note, and you shall see in him.</li>
  <li>The triple pillar of the world transform'd</li>
  <li>Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">If it be love indeed, tell me how much.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter an Attendant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Attendant</li>
  <li>News, my good lord, from Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Grates me: the sum.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Nay, hear them, Antony:</li>
  <li>Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows</li>
  <li>If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent</li>
  <li>His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;</li>
  <li class="number">Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;</li>
  <li>Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>How, my love!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Perchance! nay, and most like:</li>
  <li>You must not stay here longer, your dismission</li>
  <li class="number">Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.</li>
  <li>Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?</li>
  <li>Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,</li>
  <li>Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine</li>
  <li>Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame</li>
  <li class="number">When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch</li>
  <li>Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.</li>
  <li>Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike</li>
  <li>Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life</li>
  <li class="number">Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Embracing</li>
  <li>And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,</li>
  <li>On pain of punishment, the world to weet</li>
  <li>We stand up peerless.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Excellent falsehood!</li>
  <li class="number">Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?</li>
  <li>I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony</li>
  <li>Will be himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>But stirr'd by Cleopatra.</li>
  <li>Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,</li>
  <li class="number">Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:</li>
  <li>There's not a minute of our lives should stretch</li>
  <li>Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Hear the ambassadors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Fie, wrangling queen!</li>
  <li class="number">Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,</li>
  <li>To weep; whose every passion fully strives</li>
  <li>To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!</li>
  <li>No messenger, but thine; and all alone</li>
  <li>To-night we'll wander through the streets and note</li>
  <li class="number">The qualities of people. Come, my queen;</li>
  <li>Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with
          their train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DEMETRIUS</li>
  <li>Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHILO</li>
  <li>Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,</li>
  <li>He comes too short of that great property</li>
  <li class="number">Which still should go with Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DEMETRIUS</li>
  <li>I am full sorry</li>
  <li>That he approves the common liar, who</li>
  <li>Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope</li>
  <li>Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The same. Another room.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,</li>
  <li>almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer</li>
  <li>that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew</li>
  <li>this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns</li>
  <li class="number">with garlands!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Soothsayer!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Your will?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>In nature's infinite book of secrecy</li>
  <li class="number">A little I can read.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Show him your hand.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough</li>
  <li>Cleopatra's health to drink.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Good sir, give me good fortune.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li class="number">I make not, but foresee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Pray, then, foresee me one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>You shall be yet far fairer than you are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>He means in flesh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>No, you shall paint when you are old.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Wrinkles forbid!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Vex not his prescience; be attentive.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Hush!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>You shall be more beloving than beloved.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>I had rather heat my liver with drinking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, hear him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married</li>
  <li>to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:</li>
  <li>let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry</li>
  <li>may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O excellent! I love long life better than figs.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune</li>
  <li>Than that which is to approach.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Then belike my children shall have no names:</li>
  <li>prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>If every of your wishes had a womb.</li>
  <li>And fertile every wish, a million.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Nay, come, tell Iras hers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>We'll know all our fortunes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall</li>
  <li>be — drunk to bed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li class="number">There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful</li>
  <li>prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,</li>
  <li class="number">tell her but a worky-day fortune.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Your fortunes are alike.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>But how, but how? give me particulars.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>I have said.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than</li>
  <li>I, where would you choose it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Not in my husband's nose.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas —  come,</li>
  <li>his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman</li>
  <li class="number">that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let</li>
  <li>her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst</li>
  <li>follow worse, till the worst of all follow him</li>
  <li>laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good</li>
  <li>Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a</li>
  <li class="number">matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!</li>
  <li>for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man</li>
  <li>loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a</li>
  <li>foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep</li>
  <li class="number">decorum, and fortune him accordingly!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Amen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a</li>
  <li>cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but</li>
  <li>they'ld do't!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Hush! here comes Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Not he; the queen.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Saw you my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>No, lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Was he not here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">No, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden</li>
  <li>A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Madam?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Seek him, and bring him hither.</li>
  <li class="number">Where's Alexas?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Here, at your service. My lord approaches.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>We will not look upon him: go with us.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Against my brother Lucius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Ay:</li>
  <li>But soon that war had end, and the time's state</li>
  <li>Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;</li>
  <li>Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,</li>
  <li>Upon the first encounter, drave them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Well, what worst?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>The nature of bad news infects the teller.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>When it concerns the fool or coward. On:</li>
  <li>Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:</li>
  <li>Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,</li>
  <li class="number">I hear him as he flatter'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Labienus — </li>
  <li>This is stiff news — hath, with his Parthian force,</li>
  <li>Extended Asia from Euphrates;</li>
  <li>His conquering banner shook from Syria</li>
  <li class="number">To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Antony, thou wouldst say —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>O, my lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:</li>
  <li>Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;</li>
  <li class="number">Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults</li>
  <li>With such full licence as both truth and malice</li>
  <li>Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,</li>
  <li>When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us</li>
  <li>Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">At your noble pleasure.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Attendant</li>
  <li>The man from Sicyon —  is there such an one?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Attendant</li>
  <li>He stays upon your will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Let him appear.</li>
  <li class="number">These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,</li>
  <li>Or lose myself in dotage.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter another Messenger</li>
  <li>What are you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Messenger</li>
  <li>Fulvia thy wife is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Where died she?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">In Sicyon:</li>
  <li>Her length of sickness, with what else more serious</li>
  <li>Importeth thee to know, this bears.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Gives a letter</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Forbear me.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Second Messenger</li>
  <li>There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:</li>
  <li class="number">What our contempt doth often hurl from us,</li>
  <li>We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,</li>
  <li>By revolution lowering, does become</li>
  <li>The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;</li>
  <li>The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.</li>
  <li class="number">I must from this enchanting queen break off:</li>
  <li>Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,</li>
  <li>My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>What's your pleasure, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I must with haste from hence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Why, then, we kill all our women:</li>
  <li>we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;</li>
  <li>if they suffer our departure, death's the word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I must be gone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were</li>
  <li class="number">pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between</li>
  <li>them and a great cause, they should be esteemed</li>
  <li>nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of</li>
  <li>this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty</li>
  <li>times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is</li>
  <li class="number">mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon</li>
  <li>her, she hath such a celerity in dying.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>She is cunning past man's thought.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit ALEXAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but</li>
  <li>the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her</li>
  <li class="number">winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater</li>
  <li>storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this</li>
  <li>cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a</li>
  <li>shower of rain as well as Jove.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Would I had never seen her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece</li>
  <li>of work; which not to have been blest withal would</li>
  <li>have discredited your travel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Fulvia is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Fulvia is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Fulvia!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When</li>
  <li>it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man</li>
  <li class="number">from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;</li>
  <li>comforting therein, that when old robes are worn</li>
  <li>out, there are members to make new. If there were</li>
  <li>no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,</li>
  <li>and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned</li>
  <li class="number">with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new</li>
  <li>petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion</li>
  <li>that should water this sorrow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The business she hath broached in the state</li>
  <li>Cannot endure my absence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">And the business you have broached here cannot be</li>
  <li>without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which</li>
  <li>wholly depends on your abode.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>No more light answers. Let our officers</li>
  <li>Have notice what we purpose. I shall break</li>
  <li class="number">The cause of our expedience to the queen,</li>
  <li>And get her leave to part. For not alone</li>
  <li>The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,</li>
  <li>Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too</li>
  <li>Of many our contriving friends in Rome</li>
  <li class="number">Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius</li>
  <li>Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands</li>
  <li>The empire of the sea: our slippery people,</li>
  <li>Whose love is never link'd to the deserver</li>
  <li>Till his deserts are past, begin to throw</li>
  <li class="number">Pompey the Great and all his dignities</li>
  <li>Upon his son; who, high in name and power,</li>
  <li>Higher than both in blood and life, stands up</li>
  <li>For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,</li>
  <li>The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,</li>
  <li class="number">Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,</li>
  <li>And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,</li>
  <li>To such whose place is under us, requires</li>
  <li>Our quick remove from hence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I shall do't.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The same. Another room.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Where is he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>I did not see him since.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>See where he is, who's with him, what he does:</li>
  <li>I did not send you: if you find him sad,</li>
  <li class="number">Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report</li>
  <li>That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit ALEXAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,</li>
  <li>You do not hold the method to enforce</li>
  <li>The like from him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">What should I do, I do not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:</li>
  <li>In time we hate that which we often fear.</li>
  <li class="number">But here comes Antony.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I am sick and sullen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:</li>
  <li>It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature</li>
  <li class="number">Will not sustain it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now, my dearest queen —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Pray you, stand further from me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>What's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.</li>
  <li class="number">What says the married woman? You may go:</li>
  <li>Would she had never given you leave to come!</li>
  <li>Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:</li>
  <li>I have no power upon you; hers you are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The gods best know —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">O, never was there queen</li>
  <li>So mightily betray'd! yet at the first</li>
  <li>I saw the treasons planted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Cleopatra —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Why should I think you can be mine and true,</li>
  <li class="number">Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,</li>
  <li>Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,</li>
  <li>To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,</li>
  <li>Which break themselves in swearing!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Most sweet queen —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,</li>
  <li>But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,</li>
  <li>Then was the time for words: no going then;</li>
  <li>Eternity was in our lips and eyes,</li>
  <li>Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,</li>
  <li class="number">But was a race of heaven: they are so still,</li>
  <li>Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,</li>
  <li>Art turn'd the greatest liar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>How now, lady!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know</li>
  <li class="number">There were a heart in Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Hear me, queen:</li>
  <li>The strong necessity of time commands</li>
  <li>Our services awhile; but my full heart</li>
  <li>Remains in use with you. Our Italy</li>
  <li class="number">Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius</li>
  <li>Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:</li>
  <li>Equality of two domestic powers</li>
  <li>Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,</li>
  <li>Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,</li>
  <li class="number">Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,</li>
  <li>Into the hearts of such as have not thrived</li>
  <li>Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;</li>
  <li>And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge</li>
  <li>By any desperate change: my more particular,</li>
  <li class="number">And that which most with you should safe my going,</li>
  <li>Is Fulvia's death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Though age from folly could not give me freedom,</li>
  <li>It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>She's dead, my queen:</li>
  <li class="number">Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read</li>
  <li>The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:</li>
  <li>See when and where she died.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O most false love!</li>
  <li>Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill</li>
  <li class="number">With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,</li>
  <li>In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know</li>
  <li>The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,</li>
  <li>As you shall give the advice. By the fire</li>
  <li class="number">That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence</li>
  <li>Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war</li>
  <li>As thou affect'st.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Cut my lace, Charmian, come;</li>
  <li>But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,</li>
  <li class="number">So Antony loves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>My precious queen, forbear;</li>
  <li>And give true evidence to his love, which stands</li>
  <li>An honourable trial.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>So Fulvia told me.</li>
  <li class="number">I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,</li>
  <li>Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears</li>
  <li>Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene</li>
  <li>Of excellent dissembling; and let it look</li>
  <li>Life perfect honour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">You'll heat my blood: no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>You can do better yet; but this is meetly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now, by my sword —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>And target. Still he mends;</li>
  <li>But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,</li>
  <li class="number">How this Herculean Roman does become</li>
  <li>The carriage of his chafe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I'll leave you, lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Courteous lord, one word.</li>
  <li>Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:</li>
  <li class="number">Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;</li>
  <li>That you know well: something it is I would,</li>
  <li>O, my oblivion is a very Antony,</li>
  <li>And I am all forgotten.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>But that your royalty</li>
  <li class="number">Holds idleness your subject, I should take you</li>
  <li>For idleness itself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>'Tis sweating labour</li>
  <li>To bear such idleness so near the heart</li>
  <li>As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;</li>
  <li class="number">Since my becomings kill me, when they do not</li>
  <li>Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;</li>
  <li>Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.</li>
  <li>And all the gods go with you! upon your sword</li>
  <li>Sit laurel victory! and smooth success</li>
  <li class="number">Be strew'd before your feet!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Let us go. Come;</li>
  <li>Our separation so abides, and flies,</li>
  <li>That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,</li>
  <li>And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS,
            and their Train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,</li>
  <li>It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate</li>
  <li>Our great competitor: from Alexandria</li>
  <li>This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes</li>
  <li class="number">The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like</li>
  <li>Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy</li>
  <li>More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or</li>
  <li>Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there</li>
  <li>A man who is the abstract of all faults</li>
  <li class="number">That all men follow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>I must not think there are</li>
  <li>Evils enow to darken all his goodness:</li>
  <li>His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,</li>
  <li>More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,</li>
  <li class="number">Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,</li>
  <li>Than what he chooses.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not</li>
  <li>Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;</li>
  <li>To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit</li>
  <li class="number">And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;</li>
  <li>To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet</li>
  <li>With knaves that smell of sweat: say this</li>
  <li>becomes him —  </li>
  <li>As his composure must be rare indeed</li>
  <li class="number">Whom these things cannot blemish —  yet must Antony</li>
  <li>No way excuse his soils, when we do bear</li>
  <li>So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd</li>
  <li>His vacancy with his voluptuousness,</li>
  <li>Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,</li>
  <li class="number">Call on him for't: but to confound such time,</li>
  <li>That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud</li>
  <li>As his own state and ours —  'tis to be chid</li>
  <li>As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,</li>
  <li>Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,</li>
  <li class="number">And so rebel to judgment.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Here's more news.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,</li>
  <li>Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report</li>
  <li>How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;</li>
  <li class="number">And it appears he is beloved of those</li>
  <li>That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports</li>
  <li>The discontents repair, and men's reports</li>
  <li>Give him much wrong'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I should have known no less.</li>
  <li class="number">It hath been taught us from the primal state,</li>
  <li>That he which is was wish'd until he were;</li>
  <li>And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,</li>
  <li>Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,</li>
  <li>Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,</li>
  <li class="number">Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,</li>
  <li>To rot itself with motion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Caesar, I bring thee word,</li>
  <li>Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,</li>
  <li>Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound</li>
  <li class="number">With keels of every kind: many hot inroads</li>
  <li>They make in Italy; the borders maritime</li>
  <li>Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:</li>
  <li>No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon</li>
  <li>Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more</li>
  <li class="number">Than could his war resisted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Antony,</li>
  <li>Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once</li>
  <li>Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st</li>
  <li>Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel</li>
  <li class="number">Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,</li>
  <li>Though daintily brought up, with patience more</li>
  <li>Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink</li>
  <li>The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle</li>
  <li>Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign</li>
  <li class="number">The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;</li>
  <li>Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,</li>
  <li>The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps</li>
  <li>It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,</li>
  <li>Which some did die to look on: and all this — </li>
  <li class="number">It wounds thine honour that I speak it now — </li>
  <li>Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek</li>
  <li>So much as lank'd not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>'Tis pity of him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Let his shames quickly</li>
  <li class="number">Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain</li>
  <li>Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end</li>
  <li>Assemble we immediate council: Pompey</li>
  <li>Thrives in our idleness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>To-morrow, Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly</li>
  <li>Both what by sea and land I can be able</li>
  <li>To front this present time.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Till which encounter,</li>
  <li>It is my business too. Farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime</li>
  <li>Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,</li>
  <li>To let me be partaker.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Doubt not, sir;</li>
  <li>I knew it for my bond.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Charmian!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Madam?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Ha, ha!</li>
  <li>Give me to drink mandragora.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Why, madam?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That I might sleep out this great gap of time</li>
  <li>My Antony is away.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>You think of him too much.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O, 'tis treason!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Madam, I trust, not so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Thou, eunuch Mardian!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>What's your highness' pleasure?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure</li>
  <li>In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,</li>
  <li class="number">That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts</li>
  <li>May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>Yes, gracious madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Indeed!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing</li>
  <li class="number">But what indeed is honest to be done:</li>
  <li>Yet have I fierce affections, and think</li>
  <li>What Venus did with Mars.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O Charmian,</li>
  <li>Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?</li>
  <li class="number">Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?</li>
  <li>O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!</li>
  <li>Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?</li>
  <li>The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm</li>
  <li>And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,</li>
  <li class="number">Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'</li>
  <li>For so he calls me: now I feed myself</li>
  <li>With most delicious poison. Think on me,</li>
  <li>That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,</li>
  <li>And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">When thou wast here above the ground, I was</li>
  <li>A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey</li>
  <li>Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;</li>
  <li>There would he anchor his aspect and die</li>
  <li>With looking on his life.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">Sovereign of Egypt, hail!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!</li>
  <li>Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath</li>
  <li>With his tinct gilded thee.</li>
  <li>How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">Last thing he did, dear queen,</li>
  <li>He kiss'd —  the last of many doubled kisses —  </li>
  <li>This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Mine ear must pluck it thence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>'Good friend,' quoth he,</li>
  <li class="number">'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends</li>
  <li>This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,</li>
  <li>To mend the petty present, I will piece</li>
  <li>Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,</li>
  <li>Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,</li>
  <li class="number">And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,</li>
  <li>Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke</li>
  <li>Was beastly dumb'd by him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What, was he sad or merry?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Like to the time o' the year between the extremes</li>
  <li class="number">Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O well-divided disposition! Note him,</li>
  <li>Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:</li>
  <li>He was not sad, for he would shine on those</li>
  <li>That make their looks by his; he was not merry,</li>
  <li class="number">Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay</li>
  <li>In Egypt with his joy; but between both:</li>
  <li>O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,</li>
  <li>The violence of either thee becomes,</li>
  <li>So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:</li>
  <li>Why do you send so thick?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Who's born that day</li>
  <li>When I forget to send to Antony,</li>
  <li>Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.</li>
  <li class="number">Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,</li>
  <li>Ever love Caesar so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O that brave Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Be choked with such another emphasis!</li>
  <li>Say, the brave Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">The valiant Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,</li>
  <li>If thou with Caesar paragon again</li>
  <li>My man of men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>By your most gracious pardon,</li>
  <li class="number">I sing but after you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>My salad days,</li>
  <li>When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,</li>
  <li>To say as I said then! But, come, away;</li>
  <li>Get me ink and paper:</li>
  <li class="number">He shall have every day a several greeting,</li>
  <li>Or I'll unpeople Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT II</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Messina. POMPEY's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in
              warlike manner</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>If the great gods be just, they shall assist</li>
  <li>The deeds of justest men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENECRATES</li>
  <li>Know, worthy Pompey,</li>
  <li>That what they do delay, they not deny.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays</li>
  <li>The thing we sue for.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENECRATES</li>
  <li>We, ignorant of ourselves,</li>
  <li>Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers</li>
  <li>Deny us for our good; so find we profit</li>
  <li class="number">By losing of our prayers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I shall do well:</li>
  <li>The people love me, and the sea is mine;</li>
  <li>My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope</li>
  <li>Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony</li>
  <li class="number">In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make</li>
  <li>No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where</li>
  <li>He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,</li>
  <li>Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,</li>
  <li>Nor either cares for him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar and Lepidus</li>
  <li>Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Where have you this? 'tis false.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>From Silvius, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,</li>
  <li class="number">Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,</li>
  <li>Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!</li>
  <li>Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!</li>
  <li>Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,</li>
  <li>Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks</li>
  <li class="number">Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;</li>
  <li>That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour</li>
  <li>Even till a Lethe'd dulness!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter VARRIUS</li>
  <li>How now, Varrius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRIUS</li>
  <li>This is most certain that I shall deliver:</li>
  <li class="number">Mark Antony is every hour in Rome</li>
  <li>Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis</li>
  <li>A space for further travel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I could have given less matter</li>
  <li>A better ear. Menas, I did not think</li>
  <li class="number">This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm</li>
  <li>For such a petty war: his soldiership</li>
  <li>Is twice the other twain: but let us rear</li>
  <li>The higher our opinion, that our stirring</li>
  <li>Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck</li>
  <li class="number">The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>I cannot hope</li>
  <li>Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:</li>
  <li>His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;</li>
  <li>His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,</li>
  <li class="number">Not moved by Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I know not, Menas,</li>
  <li>How lesser enmities may give way to greater.</li>
  <li>Were't not that we stand up against them all,</li>
  <li>'Twere pregnant they should square between</li>
  <li class="number">themselves;</li>
  <li>For they have entertained cause enough</li>
  <li>To draw their swords: but how the fear of us</li>
  <li>May cement their divisions and bind up</li>
  <li>The petty difference, we yet not know.</li>
  <li class="number">Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands</li>
  <li>Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.</li>
  <li>Come, Menas.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,</li>
  <li>And shall become you well, to entreat your captain</li>
  <li>To soft and gentle speech.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I shall entreat him</li>
  <li class="number">To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,</li>
  <li>Let Antony look over Caesar's head</li>
  <li>And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,</li>
  <li>Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,</li>
  <li>I would not shave't to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis not a time</li>
  <li>For private stomaching.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Every time</li>
  <li>Serves for the matter that is then born in't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>But small to greater matters must give way.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Not if the small come first.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Your speech is passion:</li>
  <li>But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes</li>
  <li>The noble Antony.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>And yonder, Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">If we compose well here, to Parthia:</li>
  <li>Hark, Ventidius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I do not know,</li>
  <li>Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Noble friends,</li>
  <li class="number">That which combined us was most great, and let not</li>
  <li>A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,</li>
  <li>May it be gently heard: when we debate</li>
  <li>Our trivial difference loud, we do commit</li>
  <li>Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,</li>
  <li class="number">The rather, for I earnestly beseech,</li>
  <li>Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,</li>
  <li>Nor curstness grow to the matter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>'Tis spoken well.</li>
  <li>Were we before our armies, and to fight.</li>
  <li class="number">I should do thus.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Welcome to Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Thank you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Sit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Sit, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, then.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I learn, you take things ill which are not so,</li>
  <li>Or being, concern you not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I must be laugh'd at,</li>
  <li>If, or for nothing or a little, I</li>
  <li class="number">Should say myself offended, and with you</li>
  <li>Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should</li>
  <li>Once name you derogately, when to sound your name</li>
  <li>It not concern'd me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>My being in Egypt, Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">What was't to you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>No more than my residing here at Rome</li>
  <li>Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there</li>
  <li>Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt</li>
  <li>Might be my question.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">How intend you, practised?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You may be pleased to catch at mine intent</li>
  <li>By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother</li>
  <li>Made wars upon me; and their contestation</li>
  <li>Was theme for you, you were the word of war.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">You do mistake your business; my brother never</li>
  <li>Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;</li>
  <li>And have my learning from some true reports,</li>
  <li>That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather</li>
  <li>Discredit my authority with yours;</li>
  <li class="number">And make the wars alike against my stomach,</li>
  <li>Having alike your cause? Of this my letters</li>
  <li>Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,</li>
  <li>As matter whole you have not to make it with,</li>
  <li>It must not be with this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">You praise yourself</li>
  <li>By laying defects of judgment to me; but</li>
  <li>You patch'd up your excuses.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Not so, not so;</li>
  <li>I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,</li>
  <li class="number">Very necessity of this thought, that I,</li>
  <li>Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,</li>
  <li>Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars</li>
  <li>Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,</li>
  <li>I would you had her spirit in such another:</li>
  <li class="number">The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle</li>
  <li>You may pace easy, but not such a wife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Would we had all such wives, that the men might go</li>
  <li>to wars with the women!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar</li>
  <li class="number">Made out of her impatience, which not wanted</li>
  <li>Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant</li>
  <li>Did you too much disquiet: for that you must</li>
  <li>But say, I could not help it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I wrote to you</li>
  <li class="number">When rioting in Alexandria; you</li>
  <li>Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts</li>
  <li>Did gibe my missive out of audience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Sir,</li>
  <li>He fell upon me ere admitted: then</li>
  <li class="number">Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want</li>
  <li>Of what I was i' the morning: but next day</li>
  <li>I told him of myself; which was as much</li>
  <li>As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow</li>
  <li>Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,</li>
  <li class="number">Out of our question wipe him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You have broken</li>
  <li>The article of your oath; which you shall never</li>
  <li>Have tongue to charge me with.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Soft, Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">No,</li>
  <li>Lepidus, let him speak:</li>
  <li>The honour is sacred which he talks on now,</li>
  <li>Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;</li>
  <li>The article of my oath.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">To lend me arms and aid when I required them;</li>
  <li>The which you both denied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Neglected, rather;</li>
  <li>And then when poison'd hours had bound me up</li>
  <li>From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,</li>
  <li class="number">I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty</li>
  <li>Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power</li>
  <li>Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,</li>
  <li>To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;</li>
  <li>For which myself, the ignorant motive, do</li>
  <li class="number">So far ask pardon as befits mine honour</li>
  <li>To stoop in such a case.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>'Tis noble spoken.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>If it might please you, to enforce no further</li>
  <li>The griefs between ye: to forget them quite</li>
  <li class="number">Were to remember that the present need</li>
  <li>Speaks to atone you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Worthily spoken, Mecaenas.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Or, if you borrow one another's love for the</li>
  <li>instant, you may, when you hear no more words of</li>
  <li class="number">Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to</li>
  <li>wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Thou art a soldier only: speak no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Go to, then; your considerate stone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I do not much dislike the matter, but</li>
  <li>The manner of his speech; for't cannot be</li>
  <li>We shall remain in friendship, our conditions</li>
  <li>So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew</li>
  <li class="number">What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge</li>
  <li>O' the world I would pursue it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Give me leave, Caesar —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Speak, Agrippa.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,</li>
  <li class="number">Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony</li>
  <li>Is now a widower.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Say not so, Agrippa:</li>
  <li>If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof</li>
  <li>Were well deserved of rashness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">I am not married, Caesar: let me hear</li>
  <li>Agrippa further speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>To hold you in perpetual amity,</li>
  <li>To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts</li>
  <li>With an unslipping knot, take Antony</li>
  <li class="number">Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims</li>
  <li>No worse a husband than the best of men;</li>
  <li>Whose virtue and whose general graces speak</li>
  <li>That which none else can utter. By this marriage,</li>
  <li>All little jealousies, which now seem great,</li>
  <li class="number">And all great fears, which now import their dangers,</li>
  <li>Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,</li>
  <li>Where now half tales be truths: her love to both</li>
  <li>Would, each to other and all loves to both,</li>
  <li>Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;</li>
  <li class="number">For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,</li>
  <li>By duty ruminated.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Will Caesar speak?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd</li>
  <li>With what is spoke already.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">What power is in Agrippa,</li>
  <li>If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'</li>
  <li>To make this good?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>The power of Caesar, and</li>
  <li>His power unto Octavia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">May I never</li>
  <li>To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,</li>
  <li>Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:</li>
  <li>Further this act of grace: and from this hour</li>
  <li>The heart of brothers govern in our loves</li>
  <li class="number">And sway our great designs!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>There is my hand.</li>
  <li>A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother</li>
  <li>Did ever love so dearly: let her live</li>
  <li>To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never</li>
  <li class="number">Fly off our loves again!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Happily, amen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;</li>
  <li>For he hath laid strange courtesies and great</li>
  <li>Of late upon me: I must thank him only,</li>
  <li class="number">Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;</li>
  <li>At heel of that, defy him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Time calls upon's:</li>
  <li>Of us must Pompey presently be sought,</li>
  <li>Or else he seeks out us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Where lies he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>About the mount Misenum.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>What is his strength by land?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Great and increasing: but by sea</li>
  <li>He is an absolute master.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">So is the fame.</li>
  <li>Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:</li>
  <li>Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we</li>
  <li>The business we have talk'd of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>With most gladness:</li>
  <li class="number">And do invite you to my sister's view,</li>
  <li>Whither straight I'll lead you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Let us, Lepidus,</li>
  <li>Not lack your company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Noble Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">Not sickness should detain me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY,
                and LEPIDUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Welcome from Egypt, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My</li>
  <li>honourable friend, Agrippa!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Good Enobarbus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li class="number">We have cause to be glad that matters are so well</li>
  <li>digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and</li>
  <li>made the night light with drinking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and</li>
  <li class="number">but twelve persons there; is this true?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more</li>
  <li>monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to</li>
  <li>her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up</li>
  <li>his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised</li>
  <li>well for her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I will tell you.</li>
  <li class="number">The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,</li>
  <li>Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;</li>
  <li>Purple the sails, and so perfumed that</li>
  <li>The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,</li>
  <li>Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made</li>
  <li class="number">The water which they beat to follow faster,</li>
  <li>As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,</li>
  <li>It beggar'd all description: she did lie</li>
  <li>In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — </li>
  <li>O'er-picturing that Venus where we see</li>
  <li class="number">The fancy outwork nature: on each side her</li>
  <li>Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,</li>
  <li>With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem</li>
  <li>To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,</li>
  <li>And what they undid did.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li class="number">O, rare for Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,</li>
  <li>So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,</li>
  <li>And made their bends adornings: at the helm</li>
  <li>A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle</li>
  <li class="number">Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,</li>
  <li>That yarely frame the office. From the barge</li>
  <li>A strange invisible perfume hits the sense</li>
  <li>Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast</li>
  <li>Her people out upon her; and Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,</li>
  <li>Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,</li>
  <li>Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,</li>
  <li>And made a gap in nature.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Rare Egyptian!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,</li>
  <li>Invited her to supper: she replied,</li>
  <li>It should be better he became her guest;</li>
  <li>Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,</li>
  <li>Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,</li>
  <li class="number">Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,</li>
  <li>And for his ordinary pays his heart</li>
  <li>For what his eyes eat only.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Royal wench!</li>
  <li>She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:</li>
  <li class="number">He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I saw her once</li>
  <li>Hop forty paces through the public street;</li>
  <li>And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,</li>
  <li>That she did make defect perfection,</li>
  <li class="number">And, breathless, power breathe forth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Now Antony must leave her utterly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Never; he will not:</li>
  <li>Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale</li>
  <li>Her infinite variety: other women cloy</li>
  <li class="number">The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry</li>
  <li>Where most she satisfies; for vilest things</li>
  <li>Become themselves in her: that the holy priests</li>
  <li>Bless her when she is riggish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle</li>
  <li class="number">The heart of Antony, Octavia is</li>
  <li>A blessed lottery to him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Let us go.</li>
  <li>Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest</li>
  <li>Whilst you abide here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Humbly, sir, I thank you.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between
                  them, and Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The world and my great office will sometimes</li>
  <li>Divide me from your bosom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>All which time</li>
  <li>Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers</li>
  <li class="number">To them for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Good night, sir. My Octavia,</li>
  <li>Read not my blemishes in the world's report:</li>
  <li>I have not kept my square; but that to come</li>
  <li>Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady.</li>
  <li class="number">Good night, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Good night.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Soothsayer</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>If you can, your reason?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li class="number">I see it in</li>
  <li>My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet</li>
  <li>Hie you to Egypt again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Say to me,</li>
  <li>Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar's.</li>
  <li>Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:</li>
  <li>Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is</li>
  <li>Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,</li>
  <li>Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel</li>
  <li class="number">Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore</li>
  <li>Make space enough between you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Speak this no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>To none but thee; no more, but when to thee.</li>
  <li>If thou dost play with him at any game,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,</li>
  <li>He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,</li>
  <li>When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit</li>
  <li>Is all afraid to govern thee near him;</li>
  <li>But, he away, 'tis noble.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Get thee gone:</li>
  <li>Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Soothsayer</li>
  <li>He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,</li>
  <li>He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;</li>
  <li>And in our sports my better cunning faints</li>
  <li class="number">Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;</li>
  <li>His cocks do win the battle still of mine,</li>
  <li>When it is all to nought; and his quails ever</li>
  <li>Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:</li>
  <li>And though I make this marriage for my peace,</li>
  <li class="number">I' the east my pleasure lies.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li>O, come, Ventidius,</li>
  <li>You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;</li>
  <li>Follow me, and receive't.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The same. A street.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten</li>
  <li>Your generals after.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Sir, Mark Antony</li>
  <li>Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,</li>
  <li>Which will become you both, farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>We shall,</li>
  <li>As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount</li>
  <li>Before you, Lepidus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">Your way is shorter;</li>
  <li>My purposes do draw me much about:</li>
  <li>You'll win two days upon me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Sir, good success!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Farewell.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Give me some music; music, moody food</li>
  <li>Of us that trade in love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Attendants</li>
  <li>The music, ho!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARDIAN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>As well a woman with an eunuch play'd</li>
  <li>As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>As well as I can, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>And when good will is show'd, though't come</li>
  <li class="number">too short,</li>
  <li>The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:</li>
  <li>Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,</li>
  <li>My music playing far off, I will betray</li>
  <li>Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce</li>
  <li class="number">Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,</li>
  <li>I'll think them every one an Antony,</li>
  <li>And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>'Twas merry when</li>
  <li>You wager'd on your angling; when your diver</li>
  <li class="number">Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he</li>
  <li>With fervency drew up.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That time —  O times! — </li>
  <li>I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night</li>
  <li>I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn,</li>
  <li class="number">Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;</li>
  <li>Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst</li>
  <li>I wore his sword Philippan.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</li>
  <li>O, from Italy</li>
  <li>Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,</li>
  <li class="number">That long time have been barren.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Madam, madam —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Antonius dead! — If thou say so, villain,</li>
  <li>Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,</li>
  <li>If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here</li>
  <li class="number">My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings</li>
  <li>Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>First, madam, he is well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Why, there's more gold.</li>
  <li>But, sirrah, mark, we use</li>
  <li class="number">To say the dead are well: bring it to that,</li>
  <li>The gold I give thee will I melt and pour</li>
  <li>Down thy ill-uttering throat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Good madam, hear me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Well, go to, I will;</li>
  <li class="number">But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony</li>
  <li>Be free and healthful —  so tart a favour</li>
  <li>To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,</li>
  <li>Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,</li>
  <li>Not like a formal man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Will't please you hear me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:</li>
  <li>Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,</li>
  <li>Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,</li>
  <li>I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail</li>
  <li class="number">Rich pearls upon thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Madam, he's well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Well said.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>And friends with Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Thou'rt an honest man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Make thee a fortune from me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>But yet, madam —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay</li>
  <li>The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!</li>
  <li class="number">'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth</li>
  <li>Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,</li>
  <li>Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,</li>
  <li>The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:</li>
  <li>In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Free, madam! no; I made no such report:</li>
  <li>He's bound unto Octavia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>For what good turn?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>For the best turn i' the bed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I am pale, Charmian.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Madam, he's married to Octavia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>The most infectious pestilence upon thee!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Strikes him down</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Good madam, patience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What say you? Hence,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Strikes him again</li>
  <li>Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes</li>
  <li class="number">Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">She hales him up and down</li>
  <li>Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,</li>
  <li>Smarting in lingering pickle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Gracious madam,</li>
  <li>I that do bring the news made not the match.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,</li>
  <li>And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst</li>
  <li>Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage;</li>
  <li>And I will boot thee with what gift beside</li>
  <li>Thy modesty can beg.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">He's married, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Rogue, thou hast lived too long.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Draws a knife</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Nay, then I'll run.</li>
  <li>What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:</li>
  <li class="number">The man is innocent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.</li>
  <li>Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures</li>
  <li>Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:</li>
  <li>Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">He is afeard to come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I will not hurt him.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>These hands do lack nobility, that they strike</li>
  <li>A meaner than myself; since I myself</li>
  <li>Have given myself the cause.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Come hither, sir.</li>
  <li>Though it be honest, it is never good</li>
  <li>To bring bad news: give to a gracious message.</li>
  <li>An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell</li>
  <li>Themselves when they be felt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">I have done my duty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Is he married?</li>
  <li>I cannot hate thee worser than I do,</li>
  <li>If thou again say 'Yes.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>He's married, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Should I lie, madam?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O, I would thou didst,</li>
  <li>So half my Egypt were submerged and made</li>
  <li>A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:</li>
  <li class="number">Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me</li>
  <li>Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>I crave your highness' pardon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>He is married?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Take no offence that I would not offend you:</li>
  <li class="number">To punish me for what you make me do.</li>
  <li>Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,</li>
  <li>That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:</li>
  <li>The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome</li>
  <li class="number">Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,</li>
  <li>And be undone by 'em!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Good your highness, patience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Many times, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">I am paid for't now.</li>
  <li>Lead me from hence:</li>
  <li>I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.</li>
  <li>Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him</li>
  <li>Report the feature of Octavia, her years,</li>
  <li class="number">Her inclination, let him not leave out</li>
  <li>The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Let him for ever go: — let him not — Charmian,</li>
  <li>Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,</li>
  <li>The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To MARDIAN</li>
  <li class="number">Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,</li>
  <li>But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  Near Misenum.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,
                    with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
                    MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS,
                    with Soldiers marching</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Your hostages I have, so have you mine;</li>
  <li>And we shall talk before we fight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Most meet</li>
  <li>That first we come to words; and therefore have we</li>
  <li class="number">Our written purposes before us sent;</li>
  <li>Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know</li>
  <li>If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,</li>
  <li>And carry back to Sicily much tall youth</li>
  <li>That else must perish here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">To you all three,</li>
  <li>The senators alone of this great world,</li>
  <li>Chief factors for the gods, I do not know</li>
  <li>Wherefore my father should revengers want,</li>
  <li>Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,</li>
  <li>There saw you labouring for him. What was't</li>
  <li>That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what</li>
  <li>Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,</li>
  <li>With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,</li>
  <li class="number">To drench the Capitol; but that they would</li>
  <li>Have one man but a man? And that is it</li>
  <li>Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen</li>
  <li>The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant</li>
  <li>To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome</li>
  <li class="number">Cast on my noble father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Take your time.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;</li>
  <li>We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st</li>
  <li>How much we do o'er-count thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">At land, indeed,</li>
  <li>Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:</li>
  <li>But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,</li>
  <li>Remain in't as thou mayst.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Be pleased to tell us — </li>
  <li class="number">For this is from the present — how you take</li>
  <li>The offers we have sent you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>There's the point.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Which do not be entreated to, but weigh</li>
  <li>What it is worth embraced.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">And what may follow,</li>
  <li>To try a larger fortune.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>You have made me offer</li>
  <li>Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must</li>
  <li>Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send</li>
  <li class="number">Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon</li>
  <li>To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back</li>
  <li>Our targes undinted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>That's our offer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Know, then,</li>
  <li class="number">I came before you here a man prepared</li>
  <li>To take this offer: but Mark Antony</li>
  <li>Put me to some impatience: though I lose</li>
  <li>The praise of it by telling, you must know,</li>
  <li>When Caesar and your brother were at blows,</li>
  <li class="number">Your mother came to Sicily and did find</li>
  <li>Her welcome friendly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I have heard it, Pompey;</li>
  <li>And am well studied for a liberal thanks</li>
  <li>Which I do owe you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">Let me have your hand:</li>
  <li>I did not think, sir, to have met you here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,</li>
  <li>That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;</li>
  <li>For I have gain'd by 't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Since I saw you last,</li>
  <li>There is a change upon you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Well, I know not</li>
  <li>What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;</li>
  <li>But in my bosom shall she never come,</li>
  <li class="number">To make my heart her vassal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Well met here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:</li>
  <li>I crave our composition may be written,</li>
  <li>And seal'd between us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">That's the next to do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's</li>
  <li>Draw lots who shall begin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>That will I, Pompey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>No, Antony, take the lot: but, first</li>
  <li class="number">Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery</li>
  <li>Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar</li>
  <li>Grew fat with feasting there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>You have heard much.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I have fair meanings, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">And fair words to them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Then so much have I heard:</li>
  <li>And I have heard, Apollodorus carried — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>No more of that: he did so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>What, I pray you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Well;</li>
  <li>And well am like to do; for, I perceive,</li>
  <li>Four feasts are toward.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">Let me shake thy hand;</li>
  <li>I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,</li>
  <li>When I have envied thy behavior.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Sir,</li>
  <li>I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye,</li>
  <li class="number">When you have well deserved ten times as much</li>
  <li>As I have said you did.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Enjoy thy plainness,</li>
  <li>It nothing ill becomes thee.</li>
  <li>Aboard my galley I invite you all:</li>
  <li class="number">Will you lead, lords?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Show us the way, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Come.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Aside  Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have</li>
  <li>made this treaty. — You and I have known, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">At sea, I think.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>We have, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>You have done well by water.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>And you by land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I will praise any man that will praise me; though it</li>
  <li class="number">cannot be denied what I have done by land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Nor what I have done by water.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Yes, something you can deny for your own</li>
  <li>safety: you have been a great thief by sea.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>And you by land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">There I deny my land service. But give me your</li>
  <li>hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they</li>
  <li>might take two thieves kissing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>But there is never a fair woman has a true face.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">No slander; they steal hearts.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>We came hither to fight with you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.</li>
  <li>Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony</li>
  <li>here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Caesar's sister is called Octavia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Pray ye, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>'Tis true.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would</li>
  <li>not prophesy so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">I think the policy of that purpose made more in the</li>
  <li>marriage than the love of the parties.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I think so too. But you shall find, the band that</li>
  <li>seems to tie their friendship together will be the</li>
  <li>very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a</li>
  <li class="number">holy, cold, and still conversation.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Who would not have his wife so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony.</li>
  <li>He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the</li>
  <li>sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as</li>
  <li class="number">I said before, that which is the strength of their</li>
  <li>amity shall prove the immediate author of their</li>
  <li>variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:</li>
  <li>he married but his occasion here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?</li>
  <li class="number">I have a health for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Come, let's away.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with
                      a banquet</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Servant</li>
  <li>Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are</li>
  <li>ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world</li>
  <li>will blow them down.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Servant</li>
  <li>Lepidus is high-coloured.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Servant</li>
  <li class="number">They have made him drink alms-drink.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Servant</li>
  <li>As they pinch one another by the disposition, he</li>
  <li>cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his</li>
  <li>entreaty, and himself to the drink.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Servant</li>
  <li>But it raises the greater war between him and</li>
  <li class="number">his discretion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Servant</li>
  <li>Why, this is to have a name in great men's</li>
  <li>fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do</li>
  <li>me no service as a partisan I could not heave.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Servant</li>
  <li>To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen</li>
  <li class="number">to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,</li>
  <li>which pitifully disaster the cheeks.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK
                        ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS,
                        DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>To OCTAVIUS CAESAR  Thus do they, sir: they take</li>
  <li>the flow o' the Nile</li>
  <li>By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know,</li>
  <li class="number">By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth</li>
  <li>Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,</li>
  <li>The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman</li>
  <li>Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,</li>
  <li>And shortly comes to harvest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">You've strange serpents there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Ay, Lepidus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the</li>
  <li>operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>They are so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">Sit —  and some wine! A health to Lepidus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'</li>
  <li>pyramises are very goodly things; without</li>
  <li class="number">contradiction, I have heard that.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Aside to POMPEY  Pompey, a word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Aside to MENAS                 Say in mine ear:</li>
  <li>what is't?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Aside to POMPEY  Forsake thy seat, I do beseech</li>
  <li class="number">thee, captain,</li>
  <li>And hear me speak a word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Aside to MENAS  Forbear me till anon.</li>
  <li>This wine for Lepidus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>What manner o' thing is your crocodile?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad</li>
  <li>as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,</li>
  <li>and moves with its own organs: it lives by that</li>
  <li>which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of</li>
  <li>it, it transmigrates.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">What colour is it of?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Of it own colour too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>'Tis a strange serpent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Will this description satisfy him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a</li>
  <li>very epicure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Aside to MENAS  Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of</li>
  <li>that? away!</li>
  <li>Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Aside to POMPEY  If for the sake of merit thou</li>
  <li>wilt hear me,</li>
  <li>Rise from thy stool.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Aside to MENAS  I think thou'rt mad.</li>
  <li>The matter?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Rises, and walks aside</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?</li>
  <li>Be jolly, lords.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>These quick-sands, Lepidus,</li>
  <li>Keep off them, for you sink.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Wilt thou be lord of all the world?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>What say'st thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>How should that be?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>But entertain it,</li>
  <li class="number">And, though thou think me poor, I am the man</li>
  <li>Will give thee all the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Hast thou drunk well?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.</li>
  <li>Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:</li>
  <li class="number">Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,</li>
  <li>Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Show me which way.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>These three world-sharers, these competitors,</li>
  <li>Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;</li>
  <li class="number">And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:</li>
  <li>All there is thine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Ah, this thou shouldst have done,</li>
  <li>And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;</li>
  <li>In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;</li>
  <li>Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue</li>
  <li>Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,</li>
  <li>I should have found it afterwards well done;</li>
  <li>But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Aside  For this,</li>
  <li>I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.</li>
  <li>Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,</li>
  <li>Shall never find it more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>This health to Lepidus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Here's to thee, Menas!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Enobarbus, welcome!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>Fill till the cup be hid.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>There's a strong fellow, Menas.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Why?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st</li>
  <li>not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,</li>
  <li>That it might go on wheels!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Drink thou; increase the reels.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li>Come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?</li>
  <li>Here is to Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">I could well forbear't.</li>
  <li>It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,</li>
  <li>And it grows fouler.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Be a child o' the time.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Possess it, I'll make answer:</li>
  <li class="number">But I had rather fast from all four days</li>
  <li>Than drink so much in one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Ha, my brave emperor!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,</li>
  <li>And celebrate our drink?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">Let's ha't, good soldier.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Come, let's all take hands,</li>
  <li>Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense</li>
  <li>In soft and delicate Lethe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>All take hands.</li>
  <li class="number">Make battery to our ears with the loud music:</li>
  <li>The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;</li>
  <li>The holding every man shall bear as loud</li>
  <li>As his strong sides can volley.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them
                            hand in hand</li>
  <li class="subhead">THE SONG.</li>
  <li>Come, thou monarch of the vine,</li>
  <li class="number">Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!</li>
  <li>In thy fats our cares be drown'd,</li>
  <li>With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:</li>
  <li>Cup us, till the world go round,</li>
  <li>Cup us, till the world go round!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,</li>
  <li>Let me request you off: our graver business</li>
  <li>Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part;</li>
  <li>You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb</li>
  <li>Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue</li>
  <li class="number">Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost</li>
  <li>Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.</li>
  <li>Good Antony, your hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li>I'll try you on the shore.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>And shall, sir; give's your hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POMPEY</li>
  <li class="number">O Antony,</li>
  <li>You have my father's house —  But, what? we are friends.</li>
  <li>Come, down into the boat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Take heed you fall not.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS</li>
  <li>Menas, I'll not on shore.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">No, to my cabin.</li>
  <li>These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!</li>
  <li>Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell</li>
  <li>To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Sound a flourish, with drums</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Ho! says a' There's my cap.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MENAS</li>
  <li class="number">Ho! Noble captain, come.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT III</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  A plain in Syria.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS,
                            and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead
                            body of PACORUS borne before him</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li>Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now</li>
  <li>Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death</li>
  <li>Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body</li>
  <li>Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,</li>
  <li class="number">Pays this for Marcus Crassus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILIUS</li>
  <li>Noble Ventidius,</li>
  <li>Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,</li>
  <li>The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,</li>
  <li>Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither</li>
  <li class="number">The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony</li>
  <li>Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and</li>
  <li>Put garlands on thy head.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li>O Silius, Silius,</li>
  <li>I have done enough; a lower place, note well,</li>
  <li class="number">May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;</li>
  <li>Better to leave undone, than by our deed</li>
  <li>Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.</li>
  <li>Caesar and Antony have ever won</li>
  <li>More in their officer than person: Sossius,</li>
  <li class="number">One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,</li>
  <li>For quick accumulation of renown,</li>
  <li>Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.</li>
  <li>Who does i' the wars more than his captain can</li>
  <li>Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,</li>
  <li class="number">The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,</li>
  <li>Than gain which darkens him.</li>
  <li>I could do more to do Antonius good,</li>
  <li>But 'twould offend him; and in his offence</li>
  <li>Should my performance perish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Thou hast, Ventidius,</li>
  <li>that</li>
  <li>Without the which a soldier, and his sword,</li>
  <li>Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li>I'll humbly signify what in his name,</li>
  <li class="number">That magical word of war, we have effected;</li>
  <li>How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,</li>
  <li>The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia</li>
  <li>We have jaded out o' the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILIUS</li>
  <li>Where is he now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VENTIDIUS</li>
  <li class="number">He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste</li>
  <li>The weight we must convey with's will permit,</li>
  <li>We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                              at another</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>What, are the brothers parted?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;</li>
  <li>The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps</li>
  <li>To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,</li>
  <li class="number">Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled</li>
  <li>With the green sickness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>'Tis a noble Lepidus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li class="number">Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:</li>
  <li>Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,</li>
  <li>poets, cannot</li>
  <li>Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!</li>
  <li class="number">His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,</li>
  <li>Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Both he loves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>They are his shards, and he their beetle.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Trumpets within</li>
  <li>So;</li>
  <li class="number">This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>No further, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You take from me a great part of myself;</li>
  <li>Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife</li>
  <li class="number">As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band</li>
  <li>Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,</li>
  <li>Let not the piece of virtue, which is set</li>
  <li>Betwixt us as the cement of our love,</li>
  <li>To keep it builded, be the ram to batter</li>
  <li class="number">The fortress of it; for better might we</li>
  <li>Have loved without this mean, if on both parts</li>
  <li>This be not cherish'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Make me not offended</li>
  <li>In your distrust.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">I have said.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>You shall not find,</li>
  <li>Though you be therein curious, the least cause</li>
  <li>For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,</li>
  <li>And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!</li>
  <li class="number">We will here part.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:</li>
  <li>The elements be kind to thee, and make</li>
  <li>Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>My noble brother!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,</li>
  <li>And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Sir, look well to my husband's house; and — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>What, Octavia?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>I'll tell you in your ear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can</li>
  <li>Her heart inform her tongue —  the swan's</li>
  <li>down-feather,</li>
  <li>That stands upon the swell at full of tide,</li>
  <li>And neither way inclines.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Aside to AGRIPPA  Will Caesar weep?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS  He has a cloud in 's face.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside to AGRIPPA  He were the worse for that,</li>
  <li>were he a horse;</li>
  <li>So is he, being a man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li class="number">Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS  Why, Enobarbus,</li>
  <li>When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,</li>
  <li>He cried almost to roaring; and he wept</li>
  <li>When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside to AGRIPPA  That year, indeed, he was</li>
  <li class="number">troubled with a rheum;</li>
  <li>What willingly he did confound he wail'd,</li>
  <li>Believe't, till I wept too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>No, sweet Octavia,</li>
  <li>You shall hear from me still; the time shall not</li>
  <li class="number">Out-go my thinking on you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Come, sir, come;</li>
  <li>I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:</li>
  <li>Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,</li>
  <li>And give you to the gods.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Adieu; be happy!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>Let all the number of the stars give light</li>
  <li>To thy fair way!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Farewell, farewell!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Kisses OCTAVIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Farewell!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Trumpets sound. Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Where is the fellow?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li>Half afeard to come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Go to, go to.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter the Messenger as before</li>
  <li>Come hither, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALEXAS</li>
  <li class="number">Good majesty,</li>
  <li>Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you</li>
  <li>But when you are well pleased.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That Herod's head</li>
  <li>I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone</li>
  <li class="number">Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Most gracious majesty —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Didst thou behold Octavia?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Ay, dread queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Where?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Madam, in Rome;</li>
  <li>I look'd her in the face, and saw her led</li>
  <li>Between her brother and Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Is she as tall as me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>She is not, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That's not so good: he cannot like her long.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!</li>
  <li class="number">What majesty is in her gait? Remember,</li>
  <li>If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>She creeps:</li>
  <li>Her motion and her station are as one;</li>
  <li>She shows a body rather than a life,</li>
  <li class="number">A statue than a breather.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Is this certain?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Or I have no observance.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Three in Egypt</li>
  <li>Cannot make better note.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">He's very knowing;</li>
  <li>I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:</li>
  <li>The fellow has good judgment.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Excellent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Guess at her years, I prithee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Madam,</li>
  <li>She was a widow —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Widow! Charmian, hark.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>And I do think she's thirty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">Round even to faultiness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.</li>
  <li>Her hair, what colour?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Brown, madam: and her forehead</li>
  <li>As low as she would wish it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">There's gold for thee.</li>
  <li>Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:</li>
  <li>I will employ thee back again; I find thee</li>
  <li>Most fit for business: go make thee ready;</li>
  <li>Our letters are prepared.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">A proper man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Indeed, he is so: I repent me much</li>
  <li>That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,</li>
  <li>This creature's no such thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Nothing, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,</li>
  <li>And serving you so long!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:</li>
  <li>But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me</li>
  <li class="number">Where I will write. All may be well enough.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>I warrant you, madam.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that —  </li>
  <li>That were excusable, that, and thousands more</li>
  <li>Of semblable import —  but he hath waged</li>
  <li>New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it</li>
  <li class="number">To public ear:</li>
  <li>Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not</li>
  <li>But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly</li>
  <li>He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:</li>
  <li>When the best hint was given him, he not took't,</li>
  <li class="number">Or did it from his teeth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>O my good lord,</li>
  <li>Believe not all; or, if you must believe,</li>
  <li>Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,</li>
  <li>If this division chance, ne'er stood between,</li>
  <li class="number">Praying for both parts:</li>
  <li>The good gods me presently,</li>
  <li>When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'</li>
  <li>Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,</li>
  <li>'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,</li>
  <li class="number">Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway</li>
  <li>'Twixt these extremes at all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Gentle Octavia,</li>
  <li>Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks</li>
  <li>Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,</li>
  <li class="number">I lose myself: better I were not yours</li>
  <li>Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,</li>
  <li>Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,</li>
  <li>I'll raise the preparation of a war</li>
  <li>Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;</li>
  <li class="number">So your desires are yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Thanks to my lord.</li>
  <li>The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,</li>
  <li>Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be</li>
  <li>As if the world should cleave, and that slain men</li>
  <li class="number">Should solder up the rift.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>When it appears to you where this begins,</li>
  <li>Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults</li>
  <li>Can never be so equal, that your love</li>
  <li>Can equally move with them. Provide your going;</li>
  <li class="number">Choose your own company, and command what cost</li>
  <li>Your heart has mind to.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  The same. Another room.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>How now, friend Eros!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>There's strange news come, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>What, man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">This is old: what is the success?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst</li>
  <li>Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let</li>
  <li>him partake in the glory of the action: and not</li>
  <li>resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly</li>
  <li class="number">wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so</li>
  <li>the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;</li>
  <li>And throw between them all the food thou hast,</li>
  <li>They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">He's walking in the garden — thus; and spurns</li>
  <li>The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'</li>
  <li>And threats the throat of that his officer</li>
  <li>That murder'd Pompey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Our great navy's rigg'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;</li>
  <li>My lord desires you presently: my news</li>
  <li>I might have told hereafter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>'Twill be naught:</li>
  <li>But let it be. Bring me to Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">Come, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,</li>
  <li>In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:</li>
  <li>I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,</li>
  <li>Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold</li>
  <li class="number">Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat</li>
  <li>Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,</li>
  <li>And all the unlawful issue that their lust</li>
  <li>Since then hath made between them. Unto her</li>
  <li>He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her</li>
  <li class="number">Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,</li>
  <li>Absolute queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>This in the public eye?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>I' the common show-place, where they exercise.</li>
  <li>His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:</li>
  <li class="number">Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia.</li>
  <li>He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd</li>
  <li>Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she</li>
  <li>In the habiliments of the goddess Isis</li>
  <li>That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience,</li>
  <li class="number">As 'tis reported, so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Let Rome be thus Inform'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Who, queasy with his insolence</li>
  <li>Already, will their good thoughts call from him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>The people know it; and have now received</li>
  <li class="number">His accusations.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Who does he accuse?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Caesar: and that, having in Sicily</li>
  <li>Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him</li>
  <li>His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me</li>
  <li class="number">Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets</li>
  <li>That Lepidus of the triumvirate</li>
  <li>Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain</li>
  <li>All his revenue.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Sir, this should be answer'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.</li>
  <li>I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel;</li>
  <li>That he his high authority abused,</li>
  <li>And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,</li>
  <li>I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,</li>
  <li class="number">And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I</li>
  <li>Demand the like.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>He'll never yield to that.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Nor must not then be yielded to in this.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIA with her train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">That ever I should call thee castaway!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not</li>
  <li>Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony</li>
  <li>Should have an army for an usher, and</li>
  <li class="number">The neighs of horse to tell of her approach</li>
  <li>Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way</li>
  <li>Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,</li>
  <li>Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust</li>
  <li>Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,</li>
  <li class="number">Raised by your populous troops: but you are come</li>
  <li>A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented</li>
  <li>The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,</li>
  <li>Is often left unloved; we should have met you</li>
  <li>By sea and land; supplying every stage</li>
  <li class="number">With an augmented greeting.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Good my lord,</li>
  <li>To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did</li>
  <li>On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,</li>
  <li>Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted</li>
  <li class="number">My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd</li>
  <li>His pardon for return.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Which soon he granted,</li>
  <li>Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Do not say so, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">I have eyes upon him,</li>
  <li>And his affairs come to me on the wind.</li>
  <li>Where is he now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>My lord, in Athens.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra</li>
  <li class="number">Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire</li>
  <li>Up to a whore; who now are levying</li>
  <li>The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled</li>
  <li>Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,</li>
  <li>Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king</li>
  <li class="number">Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;</li>
  <li>King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;</li>
  <li>Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king</li>
  <li>Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,</li>
  <li>The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,</li>
  <li class="number">With a more larger list of sceptres.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Ay me, most wretched,</li>
  <li>That have my heart parted betwixt two friends</li>
  <li>That do afflict each other!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Welcome hither:</li>
  <li class="number">Your letters did withhold our breaking forth;</li>
  <li>Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,</li>
  <li>And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;</li>
  <li>Be you not troubled with the time, which drives</li>
  <li>O'er your content these strong necessities;</li>
  <li class="number">But let determined things to destiny</li>
  <li>Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;</li>
  <li>Nothing more dear to me. You are abused</li>
  <li>Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,</li>
  <li>To do you justice, make them ministers</li>
  <li class="number">Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;</li>
  <li>And ever welcome to us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Welcome, lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Welcome, dear madam.</li>
  <li>Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:</li>
  <li class="number">Only the adulterous Antony, most large</li>
  <li>In his abominations, turns you off;</li>
  <li>And gives his potent regiment to a trull,</li>
  <li>That noises it against us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIA</li>
  <li>Is it so, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,</li>
  <li>Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I will be even with thee, doubt it not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>But why, why, why?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,</li>
  <li>And say'st it is not fit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Well, is it, is it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>If not denounced against us, why should not we</li>
  <li>Be there in person?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside  Well, I could reply:</li>
  <li>If we should serve with horse and mares together,</li>
  <li class="number">The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear</li>
  <li>A soldier and his horse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What is't you say?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;</li>
  <li>Take from his heart, take from his brain,</li>
  <li class="number">from's time,</li>
  <li>What should not then be spared. He is already</li>
  <li>Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome</li>
  <li>That Photinus an eunuch and your maids</li>
  <li>Manage this war.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Sink Rome, and their tongues rot</li>
  <li>That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,</li>
  <li>And, as the president of my kingdom, will</li>
  <li>Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:</li>
  <li>I will not stay behind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, I have done.</li>
  <li>Here comes the emperor.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Is it not strange, Canidius,</li>
  <li>That from Tarentum and Brundusium</li>
  <li>He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,</li>
  <li class="number">And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Celerity is never more admired</li>
  <li>Than by the negligent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>A good rebuke,</li>
  <li>Which might have well becomed the best of men,</li>
  <li class="number">To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we</li>
  <li>Will fight with him by sea.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>By sea! what else?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Why will my lord do so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>For that he dares us to't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">So hath my lord dared him to single fight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia.</li>
  <li>Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,</li>
  <li>Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off;</li>
  <li>And so should you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Your ships are not well mann'd;</li>
  <li>Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people</li>
  <li>Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet</li>
  <li>Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:</li>
  <li>Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace</li>
  <li class="number">Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,</li>
  <li>Being prepared for land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>By sea, by sea.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Most worthy sir, you therein throw away</li>
  <li>The absolute soldiership you have by land;</li>
  <li class="number">Distract your army, which doth most consist</li>
  <li>Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted</li>
  <li>Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego</li>
  <li>The way which promises assurance; and</li>
  <li>Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,</li>
  <li class="number">From firm security.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I'll fight at sea.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Our overplus of shipping will we burn;</li>
  <li>And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium</li>
  <li class="number">Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,</li>
  <li>We then can do't at land.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</li>
  <li>Thy business?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>The news is true, my lord; he is descried;</li>
  <li>Caesar has taken Toryne.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible;</li>
  <li>Strange that power should be. Canidius,</li>
  <li>Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,</li>
  <li>And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:</li>
  <li>Away, my Thetis!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">How now, worthy soldier?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>O noble emperor, do not fight by sea;</li>
  <li>Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt</li>
  <li>This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians</li>
  <li>And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we</li>
  <li class="number">Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,</li>
  <li>And fighting foot to foot.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Well, well: away!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS
                                ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>By Hercules, I think I am i' the right.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows</li>
  <li class="number">Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,</li>
  <li>And we are women's men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>You keep by land</li>
  <li>The legions and the horse whole, do you not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,</li>
  <li class="number">Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:</li>
  <li>But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's</li>
  <li>Carries beyond belief.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>While he was yet in Rome,</li>
  <li>His power went out in such distractions as</li>
  <li class="number">Beguiled all spies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Who's his lieutenant, hear you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>They say, one Taurus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Well I know the man.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>The emperor calls Canidius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li class="number">With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,</li>
  <li>Each minute, some.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VIII.  A plain near Actium.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Taurus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TAURUS</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,</li>
  <li>Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed</li>
  <li class="number">The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies</li>
  <li>Upon this jump.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IX.  Another part of the plain.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,</li>
  <li>In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place</li>
  <li>We may the number of the ships behold,</li>
  <li>And so proceed accordingly.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE X.  Another part of the plain.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over
                                  the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
                                  CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
                                  heard the noise of a sea-fight</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:</li>
  <li>The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,</li>
  <li>With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:</li>
  <li>To see't mine eyes are blasted.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter SCARUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li class="number">Gods and goddesses,</li>
  <li>All the whole synod of them!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>What's thy passion!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>The greater cantle of the world is lost</li>
  <li>With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away</li>
  <li class="number">Kingdoms and provinces.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>How appears the fight?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>On our side like the token'd pestilence,</li>
  <li>Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt —  </li>
  <li>Whom leprosy o'ertake! — i' the midst o' the fight,</li>
  <li class="number">When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,</li>
  <li>Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,</li>
  <li>The breese upon her, like a cow in June,</li>
  <li>Hoists sails and flies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>That I beheld:</li>
  <li class="number">Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not</li>
  <li>Endure a further view.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>She once being loof'd,</li>
  <li>The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,</li>
  <li>Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,</li>
  <li class="number">Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:</li>
  <li>I never saw an action of such shame;</li>
  <li>Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before</li>
  <li>Did violate so itself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Alack, alack!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CANIDIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,</li>
  <li>And sinks most lamentably. Had our general</li>
  <li>Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:</li>
  <li>O, he has given example for our flight,</li>
  <li>Most grossly, by his own!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, are you thereabouts?</li>
  <li>Why, then, good night indeed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li>Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend</li>
  <li>What further comes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANIDIUS</li>
  <li class="number">To Caesar will I render</li>
  <li>My legions and my horse: six kings already</li>
  <li>Show me the way of yielding.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I'll yet follow</li>
  <li>The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason</li>
  <li class="number">Sits in the wind against me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XI.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;</li>
  <li>It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:</li>
  <li>I am so lated in the world, that I</li>
  <li>Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship</li>
  <li class="number">Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,</li>
  <li>And make your peace with Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Fly! not we.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards</li>
  <li>To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;</li>
  <li class="number">I have myself resolved upon a course</li>
  <li>Which has no need of you; be gone:</li>
  <li>My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,</li>
  <li>I follow'd that I blush to look upon:</li>
  <li>My very hairs do mutiny; for the white</li>
  <li class="number">Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them</li>
  <li>For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall</li>
  <li>Have letters from me to some friends that will</li>
  <li>Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,</li>
  <li>Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint</li>
  <li class="number">Which my despair proclaims; let that be left</li>
  <li>Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:</li>
  <li>I will possess you of that ship and treasure.</li>
  <li>Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:</li>
  <li>Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,</li>
  <li class="number">Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Sits down</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS; EROS
                                    following</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Do, most dear queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Do! why: what else?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Let me sit down. O Juno!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">No, no, no, no, no.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>See you here, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>O fie, fie, fie!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Madam!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Madam, O good empress!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">Sir, sir —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept</li>
  <li>His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck</li>
  <li>The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I</li>
  <li>That the mad Brutus ended: he alone</li>
  <li class="number">Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had</li>
  <li>In the brave squares of war: yet now — No matter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Ah, stand by.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>The queen, my lord, the queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Go to him, madam, speak to him:</li>
  <li class="number">He is unqualitied with very shame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Well then, sustain him: O!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:</li>
  <li>Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but</li>
  <li>Your comfort makes the rescue.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">I have offended reputation,</li>
  <li>A most unnoble swerving.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Sir, the queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,</li>
  <li>How I convey my shame out of thine eyes</li>
  <li class="number">By looking back what I have left behind</li>
  <li>'Stroy'd in dishonour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O my lord, my lord,</li>
  <li>Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought</li>
  <li>You would have follow'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Egypt, thou knew'st too well</li>
  <li>My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,</li>
  <li>And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit</li>
  <li>Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that</li>
  <li>Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods</li>
  <li class="number">Command me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O, my pardon!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now I must</li>
  <li>To the young man send humble treaties, dodge</li>
  <li>And palter in the shifts of lowness; who</li>
  <li class="number">With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,</li>
  <li>Making and marring fortunes. You did know</li>
  <li>How much you were my conqueror; and that</li>
  <li>My sword, made weak by my affection, would</li>
  <li>Obey it on all cause.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Pardon, pardon!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates</li>
  <li>All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;</li>
  <li>Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;</li>
  <li>Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.</li>
  <li class="number">Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows</li>
  <li>We scorn her most when most she offers blows.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XII.  Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Let him appear that's come from Antony.</li>
  <li>Know you him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:</li>
  <li>An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither</li>
  <li class="number">He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,</li>
  <li>Which had superfluous kings for messengers</li>
  <li>Not many moons gone by.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Approach, and speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>Such as I am, I come from Antony:</li>
  <li class="number">I was of late as petty to his ends</li>
  <li>As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf</li>
  <li>To his grand sea.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Be't so: declare thine office.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and</li>
  <li class="number">Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,</li>
  <li>He lessens his requests; and to thee sues</li>
  <li>To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,</li>
  <li>A private man in Athens: this for him.</li>
  <li>Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;</li>
  <li class="number">Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves</li>
  <li>The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,</li>
  <li>Now hazarded to thy grace.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>For Antony,</li>
  <li>I have no ears to his request. The queen</li>
  <li class="number">Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she</li>
  <li>From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,</li>
  <li>Or take his life there: this if she perform,</li>
  <li>She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>Fortune pursue thee!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Bring him through the bands.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>To THYREUS  To try eloquence, now 'tis time: dispatch;</li>
  <li>From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,</li>
  <li>And in our name, what she requires; add more,</li>
  <li>From thine invention, offers: women are not</li>
  <li class="number">In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure</li>
  <li>The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus;</li>
  <li>Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we</li>
  <li>Will answer as a law.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>Caesar, I go.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,</li>
  <li>And what thou think'st his very action speaks</li>
  <li>In every power that moves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>Caesar, I shall.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XIII.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What shall we do, Enobarbus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Think, and die.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Is Antony or we in fault for this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Antony only, that would make his will</li>
  <li class="number">Lord of his reason. What though you fled</li>
  <li>From that great face of war, whose several ranges</li>
  <li>Frighted each other? why should he follow?</li>
  <li>The itch of his affection should not then</li>
  <li>Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,</li>
  <li class="number">When half to half the world opposed, he being</li>
  <li>The meered question: 'twas a shame no less</li>
  <li>Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,</li>
  <li>And leave his navy gazing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Prithee, peace.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Is that his answer?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>Ay, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The queen shall then have courtesy, so she</li>
  <li>Will yield us up.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EUPHRONIUS</li>
  <li>He says so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Let her know't.</li>
  <li>To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,</li>
  <li>And he will fill thy wishes to the brim</li>
  <li>With principalities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That head, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">To him again: tell him he wears the rose</li>
  <li>Of youth upon him; from which the world should note</li>
  <li>Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,</li>
  <li>May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail</li>
  <li>Under the service of a child as soon</li>
  <li class="number">As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore</li>
  <li>To lay his gay comparisons apart,</li>
  <li>And answer me declined, sword against sword,</li>
  <li>Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside  Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will</li>
  <li class="number">Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,</li>
  <li>Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are</li>
  <li>A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward</li>
  <li>Do draw the inward quality after them,</li>
  <li>To suffer all alike. That he should dream,</li>
  <li class="number">Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will</li>
  <li>Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued</li>
  <li>His judgment too.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter an Attendant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Attendant</li>
  <li>A messenger from CAESAR.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What, no more ceremony? See, my women!</li>
  <li class="number">Against the blown rose may they stop their nose</li>
  <li>That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Attendant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside  Mine honesty and I begin to square.</li>
  <li>The loyalty well held to fools does make</li>
  <li>Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure</li>
  <li class="number">To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord</li>
  <li>Does conquer him that did his master conquer</li>
  <li>And earns a place i' the story.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter THYREUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Caesar's will?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>Hear it apart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">None but friends: say boldly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>So, haply, are they friends to Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has;</li>
  <li>Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master</li>
  <li>Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>So.</li>
  <li>Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,</li>
  <li>Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,</li>
  <li>Further than he is Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Go on: right royal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>He knows that you embrace not Antony</li>
  <li>As you did love, but as you fear'd him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>The scars upon your honour, therefore, he</li>
  <li class="number">Does pity, as constrained blemishes,</li>
  <li>Not as deserved.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>He is a god, and knows</li>
  <li>What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,</li>
  <li>But conquer'd merely.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Aside             To be sure of that,</li>
  <li>I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,</li>
  <li>That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for</li>
  <li>Thy dearest quit thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>Shall I say to Caesar</li>
  <li class="number">What you require of him? for he partly begs</li>
  <li>To be desired to give. It much would please him,</li>
  <li>That of his fortunes you should make a staff</li>
  <li>To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,</li>
  <li>To hear from me you had left Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">And put yourself under his shrowd,</li>
  <li>The universal landlord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What's your name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>My name is Thyreus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Most kind messenger,</li>
  <li class="number">Say to great Caesar this: in deputation</li>
  <li>I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt</li>
  <li>To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:</li>
  <li>Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear</li>
  <li>The doom of Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis your noblest course.</li>
  <li>Wisdom and fortune combating together,</li>
  <li>If that the former dare but what it can,</li>
  <li>No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay</li>
  <li>My duty on your hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Your Caesar's father oft,</li>
  <li>When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,</li>
  <li>Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,</li>
  <li>As it rain'd kisses.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Favours, by Jove that thunders!</li>
  <li class="number">What art thou, fellow?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>One that but performs</li>
  <li>The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest</li>
  <li>To have command obey'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside               You will be whipp'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods</li>
  <li>and devils!</li>
  <li>Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'</li>
  <li>Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,</li>
  <li>And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am</li>
  <li class="number">Antony yet.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Attendants</li>
  <li>Take hence this Jack, and whip him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside  'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp</li>
  <li>Than with an old one dying.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Moon and stars!</li>
  <li class="number">Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries</li>
  <li>That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them</li>
  <li>So saucy with the hand of she here —  what's her name,</li>
  <li>Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,</li>
  <li>Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,</li>
  <li class="number">And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">THYREUS</li>
  <li>Mark Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Tug him away: being whipp'd,</li>
  <li>Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall</li>
  <li>Bear us an errand to him.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS</li>
  <li class="number">You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!</li>
  <li>Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,</li>
  <li>Forborne the getting of a lawful race,</li>
  <li>And by a gem of women, to be abused</li>
  <li>By one that looks on feeders?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Good my lord —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>You have been a boggler ever:</li>
  <li>But when we in our viciousness grow hard — </li>
  <li>O misery on't! — the wise gods seel our eyes;</li>
  <li>In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us</li>
  <li class="number">Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut</li>
  <li>To our confusion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O, is't come to this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I found you as a morsel cold upon</li>
  <li>Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment</li>
  <li class="number">Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,</li>
  <li>Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have</li>
  <li>Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,</li>
  <li>Though you can guess what temperance should be,</li>
  <li>You know not what it is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Wherefore is this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>To let a fellow that will take rewards</li>
  <li>And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with</li>
  <li>My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal</li>
  <li>And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar</li>
  <li>The horned herd! for I have savage cause;</li>
  <li>And to proclaim it civilly, were like</li>
  <li>A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank</li>
  <li>For being yare about him.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS</li>
  <li class="number">Is he whipp'd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Attendant</li>
  <li>Soundly, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Attendant</li>
  <li>He did ask favour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>If that thy father live, let him repent</li>
  <li class="number">Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry</li>
  <li>To follow Caesar in his triumph, since</li>
  <li>Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth</li>
  <li>The white hand of a lady fever thee,</li>
  <li>Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say</li>
  <li>He makes me angry with him; for he seems</li>
  <li>Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,</li>
  <li>Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;</li>
  <li>And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,</li>
  <li class="number">When my good stars, that were my former guides,</li>
  <li>Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires</li>
  <li>Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike</li>
  <li>My speech and what is done, tell him he has</li>
  <li>Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom</li>
  <li class="number">He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,</li>
  <li>As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:</li>
  <li>Hence with thy stripes, begone!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit THYREUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Have you done yet?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Alack, our terrene moon</li>
  <li class="number">Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone</li>
  <li>The fall of Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I must stay his time.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes</li>
  <li>With one that ties his points?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Not know me yet?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Cold-hearted toward me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Ah, dear, if I be so,</li>
  <li>From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,</li>
  <li>And poison it in the source; and the first stone</li>
  <li class="number">Drop in my neck: as it determines, so</li>
  <li>Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!</li>
  <li>Till by degrees the memory of my womb,</li>
  <li>Together with my brave Egyptians all,</li>
  <li>By the discandying of this pelleted storm,</li>
  <li class="number">Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile</li>
  <li>Have buried them for prey!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I am satisfied.</li>
  <li>Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where</li>
  <li>I will oppose his fate. Our force by land</li>
  <li class="number">Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too</li>
  <li>Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.</li>
  <li>Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?</li>
  <li>If from the field I shall return once more</li>
  <li>To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;</li>
  <li class="number">I and my sword will earn our chronicle:</li>
  <li>There's hope in't yet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>That's my brave lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,</li>
  <li>And fight maliciously: for when mine hours</li>
  <li class="number">Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives</li>
  <li>Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,</li>
  <li>And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,</li>
  <li>Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me</li>
  <li>All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;</li>
  <li class="number">Let's mock the midnight bell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>It is my birth-day:</li>
  <li>I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord</li>
  <li>Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>We will yet do well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Call all his noble captains to my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force</li>
  <li>The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;</li>
  <li>There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,</li>
  <li>I'll make death love me; for I will contend</li>
  <li class="number">Even with his pestilent scythe.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,</li>
  <li>Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood</li>
  <li>The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,</li>
  <li>A diminution in our captain's brain</li>
  <li class="number">Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,</li>
  <li>It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek</li>
  <li>Some way to leave him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT IV</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with
                                      his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power</li>
  <li>To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger</li>
  <li>He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat,</li>
  <li>Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know</li>
  <li class="number">I have many other ways to die; meantime</li>
  <li>Laugh at his challenge.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>Caesar must think,</li>
  <li>When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted</li>
  <li>Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now</li>
  <li class="number">Make boot of his distraction: never anger</li>
  <li>Made good guard for itself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Let our best heads</li>
  <li>Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles</li>
  <li>We mean to fight: within our files there are,</li>
  <li class="number">Of those that served Mark Antony but late,</li>
  <li>Enough to fetch him in. See it done:</li>
  <li>And feast the army; we have store to do't,</li>
  <li>And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,
                                        CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>He will not fight with me, Domitius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>No.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Why should he not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,</li>
  <li class="number">He is twenty men to one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>To-morrow, soldier,</li>
  <li>By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,</li>
  <li>Or bathe my dying honour in the blood</li>
  <li>Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Well said; come on.</li>
  <li>Call forth my household servants: let's to-night</li>
  <li>Be bounteous at our meal.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter three or four Servitors</li>
  <li>Give me thy hand,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou hast been rightly honest; — so hast thou; — </li>
  <li>Thou —  and thou —  and thou: — you have served me well,</li>
  <li>And kings have been your fellows.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS  What means this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside to CLEOPATRA  'Tis one of those odd</li>
  <li class="number">tricks which sorrow shoots</li>
  <li>Out of the mind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>And thou art honest too.</li>
  <li>I wish I could be made so many men,</li>
  <li>And all of you clapp'd up together in</li>
  <li class="number">An Antony, that I might do you service</li>
  <li>So good as you have done.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>The gods forbid!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:</li>
  <li>Scant not my cups; and make as much of me</li>
  <li class="number">As when mine empire was your fellow too,</li>
  <li>And suffer'd my command.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS  What does he mean?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Aside to CLEOPATRA  To make his followers weep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Tend me to-night;</li>
  <li class="number">May be it is the period of your duty:</li>
  <li>Haply you shall not see me more; or if,</li>
  <li>A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow</li>
  <li>You'll serve another master. I look on you</li>
  <li>As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,</li>
  <li class="number">I turn you not away; but, like a master</li>
  <li>Married to your good service, stay till death:</li>
  <li>Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,</li>
  <li>And the gods yield you for't!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>What mean you, sir,</li>
  <li class="number">To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;</li>
  <li>And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,</li>
  <li>Transform us not to women.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Ho, ho, ho!</li>
  <li>Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!</li>
  <li class="number">Grace grow where those drops fall!</li>
  <li>My hearty friends,</li>
  <li>You take me in too dolorous a sense;</li>
  <li>For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you</li>
  <li>To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,</li>
  <li class="number">I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you</li>
  <li>Where rather I'll expect victorious life</li>
  <li>Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,</li>
  <li>And drown consideration.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The same. Before the palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter two Soldiers to their guard</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>It will determine one way: fare you well.</li>
  <li>Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Nothing. What news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Well, sir, good night.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter two other Soldiers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Soldiers, have careful watch.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>And you. Good night, good night.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They place themselves in every corner of the stage</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Soldier</li>
  <li>Here we: and if to-morrow</li>
  <li class="number">Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope</li>
  <li>Our landmen will stand up.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>'Tis a brave army,</li>
  <li>And full of purpose.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Music of the hautboys as under the stage</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Soldier</li>
  <li>Peace! what noise?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">List, list!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Hark!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Music i' the air.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Under the earth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Soldier</li>
  <li>It signs well, does it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">No.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Peace, I say!</li>
  <li>What should this mean?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,</li>
  <li>Now leaves him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Walk; let's see if other watchmen</li>
  <li>Do hear what we do?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They advance to another post</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>How now, masters!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Speaking together  How now!</li>
  <li>How now! do you hear this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Ay; is't not strange?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Do you hear, masters? do you hear?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;</li>
  <li>Let's see how it will give off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Content. 'Tis strange.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The same. A room in the palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and
                                          others attending</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Eros! mine armour, Eros!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Sleep a little.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter EROS with armour</li>
  <li>Come good fellow, put mine iron on:</li>
  <li class="number">If fortune be not ours to-day, it is</li>
  <li>Because we brave her: come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Nay, I'll help too.</li>
  <li>What's this for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Ah, let be, let be! thou art</li>
  <li class="number">The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Well, well;</li>
  <li>We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?</li>
  <li>Go put on thy defences.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">Briefly, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Is not this buckled well?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Rarely, rarely:</li>
  <li>He that unbuckles this, till we do please</li>
  <li>To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.</li>
  <li class="number">Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire</li>
  <li>More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,</li>
  <li>That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st</li>
  <li>The royal occupation! thou shouldst see</li>
  <li>A workman in't.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter an armed Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Good morrow to thee; welcome:</li>
  <li>Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:</li>
  <li>To business that we love we rise betime,</li>
  <li>And go to't with delight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>A thousand, sir,</li>
  <li class="number">Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,</li>
  <li>And at the port expect you.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Shout. Trumpets flourish</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Captains and Soldiers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Captain</li>
  <li>The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Good morrow, general.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>'Tis well blown, lads:</li>
  <li class="number">This morning, like the spirit of a youth</li>
  <li>That means to be of note, begins betimes.</li>
  <li>So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said.</li>
  <li>Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:</li>
  <li>This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Kisses her</li>
  <li class="number">And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand</li>
  <li>On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee</li>
  <li>Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,</li>
  <li>Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Please you, retire to your chamber.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Lead me.</li>
  <li>He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might</li>
  <li>Determine this great war in single fight!</li>
  <li>Then Antony —  but now — Well, on.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a
                                            Soldier meeting them</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>The gods make this a happy day to Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd</li>
  <li>To make me fight at land!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Hadst thou done so,</li>
  <li class="number">The kings that have revolted, and the soldier</li>
  <li>That has this morning left thee, would have still</li>
  <li>Follow'd thy heels.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Who's gone this morning?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Who!</li>
  <li class="number">One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,</li>
  <li>He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp</li>
  <li>Say 'I am none of thine.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>What say'st thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Sir,</li>
  <li class="number">He is with Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Sir, his chests and treasure</li>
  <li>He has not with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Is he gone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Most certain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;</li>
  <li>Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him — </li>
  <li>I will subscribe — gentle adieus and greetings;</li>
  <li>Say that I wish he never find more cause</li>
  <li>To change a master. O, my fortunes have</li>
  <li class="number">Corrupted honest men! Dispatch. — Enobarbus!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with
                                              DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:</li>
  <li>Our will is Antony be took alive;</li>
  <li>Make it so known.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Caesar, I shall.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">The time of universal peace is near:</li>
  <li>Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world</li>
  <li>Shall bear the olive freely.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Antony</li>
  <li>Is come into the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Go charge Agrippa</li>
  <li>Plant those that have revolted in the van,</li>
  <li>That Antony may seem to spend his fury</li>
  <li>Upon himself.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on</li>
  <li class="number">Affairs of Antony; there did persuade</li>
  <li>Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,</li>
  <li>And leave his master Antony: for this pains</li>
  <li>Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest</li>
  <li>That fell away have entertainment, but</li>
  <li class="number">No honourable trust. I have done ill;</li>
  <li>Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,</li>
  <li>That I will joy no more.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Enobarbus, Antony</li>
  <li>Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with</li>
  <li class="number">His bounty overplus: the messenger</li>
  <li>Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now</li>
  <li>Unloading of his mules.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I give it you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soldier</li>
  <li>Mock not, Enobarbus.</li>
  <li class="number">I tell you true: best you safed the bringer</li>
  <li>Out of the host; I must attend mine office,</li>
  <li>Or would have done't myself. Your emperor</li>
  <li>Continues still a Jove.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>I am alone the villain of the earth,</li>
  <li class="number">And feel I am so most. O Antony,</li>
  <li>Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid</li>
  <li>My better service, when my turpitude</li>
  <li>Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:</li>
  <li>If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean</li>
  <li class="number">Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.</li>
  <li>I fight against thee! No: I will go seek</li>
  <li>Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits</li>
  <li>My latter part of life.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  Field of battle between the camps.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA
                                                and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:</li>
  <li>Caesar himself has work, and our oppression</li>
  <li>Exceeds what we expected.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!</li>
  <li class="number">Had we done so at first, we had droven them home</li>
  <li>With clouts about their heads.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Thou bleed'st apace.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>I had a wound here that was like a T,</li>
  <li>But now 'tis made an H.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">They do retire.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet</li>
  <li>Room for six scotches more.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter EROS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves</li>
  <li>For a fair victory.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li class="number">Let us score their backs,</li>
  <li>And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:</li>
  <li>'Tis sport to maul a runner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I will reward thee</li>
  <li>Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold</li>
  <li class="number">For thy good valour. Come thee on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>I'll halt after.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VIII.  Under the walls of Alexandria.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS,
                                                  with others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>We have beat him to his camp: run one before,</li>
  <li>And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,</li>
  <li>Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood</li>
  <li>That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;</li>
  <li class="number">For doughty-handed are you, and have fought</li>
  <li>Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been</li>
  <li>Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.</li>
  <li>Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,</li>
  <li>Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears</li>
  <li class="number">Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss</li>
  <li>The honour'd gashes whole.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SCARUS</li>
  <li>Give me thy hand</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, attended</li>
  <li>To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,</li>
  <li>Make her thanks bless thee.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">O thou day o' the world,</li>
  <li>Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,</li>
  <li>Through proof of harness to my heart, and there</li>
  <li>Ride on the pants triumphing!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Lord of lords!</li>
  <li class="number">O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from</li>
  <li>The world's great snare uncaught?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>My nightingale,</li>
  <li>We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!</li>
  <li>though grey</li>
  <li class="number">Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we</li>
  <li>A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can</li>
  <li>Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;</li>
  <li>Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:</li>
  <li>Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day</li>
  <li class="number">As if a god, in hate of mankind, had</li>
  <li>Destroy'd in such a shape.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I'll give thee, friend,</li>
  <li>An armour all of gold; it was a king's.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>He has deserved it, were it carbuncled</li>
  <li class="number">Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:</li>
  <li>Through Alexandria make a jolly march;</li>
  <li>Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:</li>
  <li>Had our great palace the capacity</li>
  <li>To camp this host, we all would sup together,</li>
  <li class="number">And drink carouses to the next day's fate,</li>
  <li>Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,</li>
  <li>With brazen din blast you the city's ear;</li>
  <li>Make mingle with rattling tabourines;</li>
  <li>That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,</li>
  <li class="number">Applauding our approach.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IX.  OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Sentinels at their post</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>If we be not relieved within this hour,</li>
  <li>We must return to the court of guard: the night</li>
  <li>Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle</li>
  <li>By the second hour i' the morn.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">This last day was</li>
  <li>A shrewd one to's.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>O, bear me witness, night —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>What man is this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Stand close, and list him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li class="number">Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,</li>
  <li>When men revolted shall upon record</li>
  <li>Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did</li>
  <li>Before thy face repent!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Enobarbus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Peace!</li>
  <li>Hark further.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</li>
  <li>O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,</li>
  <li>The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,</li>
  <li>That life, a very rebel to my will,</li>
  <li class="number">May hang no longer on me: throw my heart</li>
  <li>Against the flint and hardness of my fault:</li>
  <li>Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,</li>
  <li>And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,</li>
  <li>Nobler than my revolt is infamous,</li>
  <li class="number">Forgive me in thine own particular;</li>
  <li>But let the world rank me in register</li>
  <li>A master-leaver and a fugitive:</li>
  <li>O Antony! O Antony!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Let's speak To him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Let's hear him, for the things he speaks</li>
  <li>May concern Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Let's do so. But he sleeps.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his</li>
  <li>Was never yet for sleep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Go we to him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Hear you, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>The hand of death hath raught him.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Drums afar off</li>
  <li>Hark! the drums</li>
  <li class="number">Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him</li>
  <li>To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour</li>
  <li>Is fully out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Come on, then;</li>
  <li>He may recover yet.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt with the body</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE X.  Between the two camps.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Their preparation is to-day by sea;</li>
  <li>We please them not by land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li>For both, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;</li>
  <li class="number">We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot</li>
  <li>Upon the hills adjoining to the city</li>
  <li>Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;</li>
  <li>They have put forth the haven</li>
  <li>Where their appointment we may best discover,</li>
  <li class="number">And look on their endeavour.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XI.  Another part of the same.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>But being charged, we will be still by land,</li>
  <li>Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force</li>
  <li>Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,</li>
  <li>And hold our best advantage.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XII.  Another part of the same.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine</li>
  <li>does stand,</li>
  <li>I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word</li>
  <li>Straight, how 'tis like to go.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCARUS</li>
  <li class="number">Swallows have built</li>
  <li>In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers</li>
  <li>Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,</li>
  <li>And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony</li>
  <li>Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,</li>
  <li class="number">His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,</li>
  <li>Of what he has, and has not.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter MARK ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>All is lost;</li>
  <li>This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:</li>
  <li>My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder</li>
  <li class="number">They cast their caps up and carouse together</li>
  <li>Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!</li>
  <li>'tis thou</li>
  <li>Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart</li>
  <li>Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;</li>
  <li class="number">For when I am revenged upon my charm,</li>
  <li>I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit SCARUS</li>
  <li>O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:</li>
  <li>Fortune and Antony part here; even here</li>
  <li>Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts</li>
  <li class="number">That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave</li>
  <li>Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets</li>
  <li>On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,</li>
  <li>That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:</li>
  <li>O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm —  </li>
  <li class="number">Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;</li>
  <li>Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end —  </li>
  <li>Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,</li>
  <li>Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.</li>
  <li>What, Eros, Eros!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Why is my lord enraged against his love?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,</li>
  <li>And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,</li>
  <li>And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:</li>
  <li class="number">Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot</li>
  <li>Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown</li>
  <li>For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let</li>
  <li>Patient Octavia plough thy visage up</li>
  <li>With her prepared nails.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis well thou'rt gone,</li>
  <li>If it be well to live; but better 'twere</li>
  <li>Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death</li>
  <li>Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!</li>
  <li>The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,</li>
  <li class="number">Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:</li>
  <li>Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;</li>
  <li>And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,</li>
  <li>Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:</li>
  <li>To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall</li>
  <li class="number">Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XIII.  Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Help me, my women! O, he is more mad</li>
  <li>Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly</li>
  <li>Was never so emboss'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>To the monument!</li>
  <li class="number">There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.</li>
  <li>The soul and body rive not more in parting</li>
  <li>Than greatness going off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>To the monument!</li>
  <li>Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;</li>
  <li class="number">Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'</li>
  <li>And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,</li>
  <li>And bring me how he takes my death.</li>
  <li>To the monument!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XIV.  The same. Another room.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Eros, thou yet behold'st me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Ay, noble lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;</li>
  <li>A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,</li>
  <li class="number">A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,</li>
  <li>A forked mountain, or blue promontory</li>
  <li>With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,</li>
  <li>And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen</li>
  <li>these signs;</li>
  <li class="number">They are black vesper's pageants.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Ay, my lord,</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>That which is now a horse, even with a thought</li>
  <li>The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,</li>
  <li>As water is in water.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li class="number">It does, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>My good knave Eros, now thy captain is</li>
  <li>Even such a body: here I am Antony:</li>
  <li>Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.</li>
  <li>I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen —  </li>
  <li class="number">Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine;</li>
  <li>Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't</li>
  <li>A million more, now lost —  she, Eros, has</li>
  <li>Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory</li>
  <li>Unto an enemy's triumph.</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us</li>
  <li>Ourselves to end ourselves.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter MARDIAN</li>
  <li>O! thy vile lady!</li>
  <li>She has robb'd me of my sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>No, Antony;</li>
  <li class="number">My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled</li>
  <li>With thine entirely.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Hence, saucy eunuch; peace!</li>
  <li>She hath betray'd me and shall die the death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>Death of one person can be paid but once,</li>
  <li class="number">And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do</li>
  <li>Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake</li>
  <li>Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'</li>
  <li>Then in the midst a tearing groan did break</li>
  <li>The name of Antony; it was divided</li>
  <li class="number">Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,</li>
  <li>Thy name so buried in her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Dead, then?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARDIAN</li>
  <li>Dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,</li>
  <li class="number">And we must sleep.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To MARDIAN</li>
  <li>That thou depart'st hence safe,</li>
  <li>Does pay thy labour richly; go.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit MARDIAN</li>
  <li>Off, pluck off:</li>
  <li>The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep</li>
  <li class="number">The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!</li>
  <li>Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,</li>
  <li>Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.</li>
  <li>No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;</li>
  <li>You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit EROS</li>
  <li class="number">I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and</li>
  <li>Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now</li>
  <li>All length is torture: since the torch is out,</li>
  <li>Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour</li>
  <li>Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles</li>
  <li class="number">Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.</li>
  <li>Eros! — I come, my queen: — Eros! — Stay for me:</li>
  <li>Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,</li>
  <li>And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:</li>
  <li>Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,</li>
  <li class="number">And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter EROS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>What would my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Since Cleopatra died,</li>
  <li>I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods</li>
  <li>Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword</li>
  <li class="number">Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back</li>
  <li>With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack</li>
  <li>The courage of a woman; less noble mind</li>
  <li>Than she which by her death our Caesar tells</li>
  <li>'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,</li>
  <li class="number">That, when the exigent should come, which now</li>
  <li>Is come indeed, when I should see behind me</li>
  <li>The inevitable prosecution of</li>
  <li>Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,</li>
  <li>Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come:</li>
  <li class="number">Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.</li>
  <li>Put colour in thy cheek.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>The gods withhold me!</li>
  <li>Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,</li>
  <li>Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Eros,</li>
  <li>Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see</li>
  <li>Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down</li>
  <li>His corrigible neck, his face subdued</li>
  <li>To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat</li>
  <li class="number">Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded</li>
  <li>His baseness that ensued?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>I would not see't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured.</li>
  <li>Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn</li>
  <li class="number">Most useful for thy country.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>O, sir, pardon me!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then</li>
  <li>To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;</li>
  <li>Or thy precedent services are all</li>
  <li class="number">But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,</li>
  <li>Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Lo thee!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Turning from him</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>My sword is drawn.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Then let it do at once</li>
  <li>The thing why thou hast drawn it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>My dear master,</li>
  <li>My captain, and my emperor, let me say,</li>
  <li>Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis said, man; and farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now, Eros.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EROS</li>
  <li>Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow</li>
  <li>Of Antony's death.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Kills himself</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Thrice-nobler than myself!</li>
  <li>Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what</li>
  <li>I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros</li>
  <li>Have by their brave instruction got upon me</li>
  <li>A nobleness in record: but I will be</li>
  <li class="number">A bridegroom in my death, and run into't</li>
  <li>As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,</li>
  <li>Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Falling on his sword</li>
  <li>I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?</li>
  <li>The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DERCETAS and Guard</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li class="number">What's the noise?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end</li>
  <li>Of what I have begun.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Guard</li>
  <li>The star is fall'n.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>And time is at his period.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li class="number">Alas, and woe!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Let him that loves me strike me dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>Not I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Guard</li>
  <li>Nor I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Guard</li>
  <li>Nor any one.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Guard</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DERCETAS</li>
  <li class="number">Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.</li>
  <li>This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,</li>
  <li>Shall enter me with him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DIOMEDES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>Where's Antony?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DERCETAS</li>
  <li>There, Diomed there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li class="number">Lives he?</li>
  <li>Wilt thou not answer, man?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit DERCETAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me</li>
  <li>Sufficing strokes for death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>Most absolute lord,</li>
  <li class="number">My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>When did she send thee?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>Now, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Where is she?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear</li>
  <li class="number">Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw — </li>
  <li>Which never shall be found — you did suspect</li>
  <li>She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage</li>
  <li>Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;</li>
  <li>But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent</li>
  <li class="number">Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,</li>
  <li>I dread, too late.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!</li>
  <li>Come, your lord calls!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;</li>
  <li>'Tis the last service that I shall command you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear</li>
  <li>All your true followers out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Most heavy day!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate</li>
  <li>To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome</li>
  <li>Which comes to punish us, and we punish it</li>
  <li>Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:</li>
  <li>I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,</li>
  <li class="number">And have my thanks for all.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE XV.  The same. A monument.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with
                                                    CHARMIAN and IRAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O Charmian, I will never go from hence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Be comforted, dear madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>No, I will not:</li>
  <li>All strange and terrible events are welcome,</li>
  <li class="number">But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,</li>
  <li>Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great</li>
  <li>As that which makes it.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter, below, DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>How now! is he dead?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DIOMEDES</li>
  <li>His death's upon him, but not dead.</li>
  <li class="number">Look out o' the other side your monument;</li>
  <li>His guard have brought him thither.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O sun,</li>
  <li>Burn the great sphere thou movest in!</li>
  <li>darkling stand</li>
  <li class="number">The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,</li>
  <li>Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;</li>
  <li>Help, friends below; let's draw him hither.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Peace!</li>
  <li>Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>So it should be, that none but Antony</li>
  <li>Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>I am dying, Egypt, dying; only</li>
  <li>I here importune death awhile, until</li>
  <li class="number">Of many thousand kisses the poor last</li>
  <li>I lay up thy lips.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I dare not, dear —  </li>
  <li>Dear my lord, pardon —  I dare not,</li>
  <li>Lest I be taken: not the imperious show</li>
  <li class="number">Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall</li>
  <li>Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs,</li>
  <li>serpents, have</li>
  <li>Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:</li>
  <li>Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes</li>
  <li class="number">And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour</li>
  <li>Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony —  </li>
  <li>Help me, my women —  we must draw thee up:</li>
  <li>Assist, good friends.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>O, quick, or I am gone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!</li>
  <li>Our strength is all gone into heaviness,</li>
  <li>That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,</li>
  <li>The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,</li>
  <li>And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little —  </li>
  <li class="number">Wishes were ever fools —  O, come, come, come;</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:</li>
  <li>Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,</li>
  <li>Thus would I wear them out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>A heavy sight!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">I am dying, Egypt, dying:</li>
  <li>Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,</li>
  <li>That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,</li>
  <li>Provoked by my offence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">One word, sweet queen:</li>
  <li>Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>They do not go together.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>Gentle, hear me:</li>
  <li>None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">My resolution and my hands I'll trust;</li>
  <li>None about Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARK ANTONY</li>
  <li>The miserable change now at my end</li>
  <li>Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts</li>
  <li>In feeding them with those my former fortunes</li>
  <li class="number">Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,</li>
  <li>The noblest; and do now not basely die,</li>
  <li>Not cowardly put off my helmet to</li>
  <li>My countryman —  a Roman by a Roman</li>
  <li>Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;</li>
  <li class="number">I can no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Noblest of men, woo't die?</li>
  <li>Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide</li>
  <li>In this dull world, which in thy absence is</li>
  <li>No better than a sty? O, see, my women,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">MARK ANTONY dies</li>
  <li class="number">The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!</li>
  <li>O, wither'd is the garland of the war,</li>
  <li>The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls</li>
  <li>Are level now with men; the odds is gone,</li>
  <li>And there is nothing left remarkable</li>
  <li class="number">Beneath the visiting moon.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Faints</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O, quietness, lady!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>She is dead too, our sovereign.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Lady!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Madam!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li class="number">O madam, madam, madam!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Royal Egypt, Empress!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Peace, peace, Iras!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded</li>
  <li>By such poor passion as the maid that milks</li>
  <li class="number">And does the meanest chares. It were for me</li>
  <li>To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;</li>
  <li>To tell them that this world did equal theirs</li>
  <li>Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;</li>
  <li>Patience is scottish, and impatience does</li>
  <li class="number">Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin</li>
  <li>To rush into the secret house of death,</li>
  <li>Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?</li>
  <li>What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!</li>
  <li>My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,</li>
  <li class="number">Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:</li>
  <li>We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,</li>
  <li>what's noble,</li>
  <li>Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,</li>
  <li>And make death proud to take us. Come, away:</li>
  <li class="number">This case of that huge spirit now is cold:</li>
  <li>Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend</li>
  <li>But resolution, and the briefest end.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT V</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS,
                                                      GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;</li>
  <li>Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks</li>
  <li>The pauses that he makes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Caesar, I shall.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest</li>
  <li>Appear thus to us?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DERCETAS</li>
  <li>I am call'd Dercetas;</li>
  <li>Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy</li>
  <li>Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,</li>
  <li class="number">He was my master; and I wore my life</li>
  <li>To spend upon his haters. If thou please</li>
  <li>To take me to thee, as I was to him</li>
  <li>I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,</li>
  <li>I yield thee up my life.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">What is't thou say'st?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DERCETAS</li>
  <li>I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>The breaking of so great a thing should make</li>
  <li>A greater crack: the round world</li>
  <li>Should have shook lions into civil streets,</li>
  <li class="number">And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony</li>
  <li>Is not a single doom; in the name lay</li>
  <li>A moiety of the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DERCETAS</li>
  <li>He is dead, Caesar:</li>
  <li>Not by a public minister of justice,</li>
  <li class="number">Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,</li>
  <li>Which writ his honour in the acts it did,</li>
  <li>Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,</li>
  <li>Splitted the heart. This is his sword;</li>
  <li>I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd</li>
  <li class="number">With his most noble blood.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Look you sad, friends?</li>
  <li>The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings</li>
  <li>To wash the eyes of kings.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>And strange it is,</li>
  <li class="number">That nature must compel us to lament</li>
  <li>Our most persisted deeds.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>His taints and honours</li>
  <li>Waged equal with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AGRIPPA</li>
  <li>A rarer spirit never</li>
  <li class="number">Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us</li>
  <li>Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MECAENAS</li>
  <li>When such a spacious mirror's set before him,</li>
  <li>He needs must see himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>O Antony!</li>
  <li class="number">I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance</li>
  <li>Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce</li>
  <li>Have shown to thee such a declining day,</li>
  <li>Or look on thine; we could not stall together</li>
  <li>In the whole world: but yet let me lament,</li>
  <li class="number">With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,</li>
  <li>That thou, my brother, my competitor</li>
  <li>In top of all design, my mate in empire,</li>
  <li>Friend and companion in the front of war,</li>
  <li>The arm of mine own body, and the heart</li>
  <li class="number">Where mine his thoughts did kindle —  that our stars,</li>
  <li>Unreconciliable, should divide</li>
  <li>Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends — </li>
  <li>But I will tell you at some meeter season:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter an Egyptian</li>
  <li>The business of this man looks out of him;</li>
  <li class="number">We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Egyptian</li>
  <li>A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,</li>
  <li>Confined in all she has, her monument,</li>
  <li>Of thy intents desires instruction,</li>
  <li>That she preparedly may frame herself</li>
  <li class="number">To the way she's forced to.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Bid her have good heart:</li>
  <li>She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,</li>
  <li>How honourable and how kindly we</li>
  <li>Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live</li>
  <li class="number">To be ungentle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Egyptian</li>
  <li>So the gods preserve thee!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,</li>
  <li>We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts</li>
  <li>The quality of her passion shall require,</li>
  <li class="number">Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke</li>
  <li>She do defeat us; for her life in Rome</li>
  <li>Would be eternal in our triumph: go,</li>
  <li>And with your speediest bring us what she says,</li>
  <li>And how you find of her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar, I shall.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Gallus, go you along.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit GALLUS</li>
  <li>Where's Dolabella,</li>
  <li>To second Proculeius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Dolabella!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Let him alone, for I remember now</li>
  <li>How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.</li>
  <li>Go with me to my tent; where you shall see</li>
  <li>How hardly I was drawn into this war;</li>
  <li>How calm and gentle I proceeded still</li>
  <li class="number">In all my writings: go with me, and see</li>
  <li>What I can show in this.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Alexandria. A room in the monument.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>My desolation does begin to make</li>
  <li>A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;</li>
  <li>Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,</li>
  <li>A minister of her will: and it is great</li>
  <li class="number">To do that thing that ends all other deeds;</li>
  <li>Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;</li>
  <li>Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,</li>
  <li>The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS,
                                                        GALLUS and Soldiers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt;</li>
  <li class="number">And bids thee study on what fair demands</li>
  <li>Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What's thy name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>My name is Proculeius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Antony</li>
  <li class="number">Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but</li>
  <li>I do not greatly care to be deceived,</li>
  <li>That have no use for trusting. If your master</li>
  <li>Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,</li>
  <li>That majesty, to keep decorum, must</li>
  <li class="number">No less beg than a kingdom: if he please</li>
  <li>To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,</li>
  <li>He gives me so much of mine own, as I</li>
  <li>Will kneel to him with thanks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>Be of good cheer;</li>
  <li class="number">You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:</li>
  <li>Make your full reference freely to my lord,</li>
  <li>Who is so full of grace, that it flows over</li>
  <li>On all that need: let me report to him</li>
  <li>Your sweet dependency; and you shall find</li>
  <li class="number">A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,</li>
  <li>Where he for grace is kneel'd to.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Pray you, tell him</li>
  <li>I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him</li>
  <li>The greatness he has got. I hourly learn</li>
  <li class="number">A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly</li>
  <li>Look him i' the face.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>This I'll report, dear lady.</li>
  <li>Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied</li>
  <li>Of him that caused it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GALLUS</li>
  <li class="number">You see how easily she may be surprised:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the
                                                            monument by a ladder placed against a window, and,
                                                            having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of
                                                            the Guard unbar and open the gates</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To PROCULEIUS and the Guard</li>
  <li>Guard her till Caesar come.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Royal queen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Quick, quick, good hands.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Drawing a dagger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Hold, worthy lady, hold:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Seizes and disarms her</li>
  <li>Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this</li>
  <li>Relieved, but not betray'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>What, of death too,</li>
  <li>That rids our dogs of languish?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Cleopatra,</li>
  <li>Do not abuse my master's bounty by</li>
  <li>The undoing of yourself: let the world see</li>
  <li>His nobleness well acted, which your death</li>
  <li>Will never let come forth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Where art thou, death?</li>
  <li>Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen</li>
  <li>Worthy many babes and beggars!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>O, temperance, lady!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir;</li>
  <li class="number">If idle talk will once be necessary,</li>
  <li>I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,</li>
  <li>Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I</li>
  <li>Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;</li>
  <li>Nor once be chastised with the sober eye</li>
  <li class="number">Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up</li>
  <li>And show me to the shouting varletry</li>
  <li>Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt</li>
  <li>Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud</li>
  <li>Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies</li>
  <li class="number">Blow me into abhorring! rather make</li>
  <li>My country's high pyramides my gibbet,</li>
  <li>And hang me up in chains!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li>You do extend</li>
  <li>These thoughts of horror further than you shall</li>
  <li class="number">Find cause in Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOLABELLA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Proculeius,</li>
  <li>What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,</li>
  <li>And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,</li>
  <li>I'll take her to my guard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PROCULEIUS</li>
  <li class="number">So, Dolabella,</li>
  <li>It shall content me best: be gentle to her.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,</li>
  <li>If you'll employ me to him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Say, I would die.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">Most noble empress, you have heard of me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I cannot tell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Assuredly you know me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.</li>
  <li>You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;</li>
  <li class="number">Is't not your trick?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>I understand not, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:</li>
  <li>O, such another sleep, that I might see</li>
  <li>But such another man!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">If it might please ye —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck</li>
  <li>A sun and moon, which kept their course,</li>
  <li>and lighted</li>
  <li>The little O, the earth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">Most sovereign creature —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm</li>
  <li>Crested the world: his voice was propertied</li>
  <li>As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;</li>
  <li>But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,</li>
  <li class="number">He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,</li>
  <li>There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas</li>
  <li>That grew the more by reaping: his delights</li>
  <li>Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above</li>
  <li>The element they lived in: in his livery</li>
  <li class="number">Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were</li>
  <li>As plates dropp'd from his pocket.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Cleopatra!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Think you there was, or might be, such a man</li>
  <li>As this I dream'd of?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">Gentle madam, no.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.</li>
  <li>But, if there be, or ever were, one such,</li>
  <li>It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff</li>
  <li>To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine</li>
  <li class="number">And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,</li>
  <li>Condemning shadows quite.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Hear me, good madam.</li>
  <li>Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it</li>
  <li>As answering to the weight: would I might never</li>
  <li class="number">O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,</li>
  <li>By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites</li>
  <li>My very heart at root.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>I thank you, sir,</li>
  <li>Know you what Caesar means to do with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Nay, pray you, sir —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Though he be honourable —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>He'll lead me, then, in triumph?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Madam, he will; I know't.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there:
                                                            Octavius Caesar!'</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS,
                                                              MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Which is the Queen of Egypt?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>It is the emperor, madam.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">CLEOPATRA kneels</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Arise, you shall not kneel:</li>
  <li>I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Sir, the gods</li>
  <li class="number">Will have it thus; my master and my lord</li>
  <li>I must obey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Take to you no hard thoughts:</li>
  <li>The record of what injuries you did us,</li>
  <li>Though written in our flesh, we shall remember</li>
  <li class="number">As things but done by chance.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Sole sir o' the world,</li>
  <li>I cannot project mine own cause so well</li>
  <li>To make it clear; but do confess I have</li>
  <li>Been laden with like frailties which before</li>
  <li class="number">Have often shamed our sex.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Cleopatra, know,</li>
  <li>We will extenuate rather than enforce:</li>
  <li>If you apply yourself to our intents,</li>
  <li>Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find</li>
  <li class="number">A benefit in this change; but if you seek</li>
  <li>To lay on me a cruelty, by taking</li>
  <li>Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself</li>
  <li>Of my good purposes, and put your children</li>
  <li>To that destruction which I'll guard them from,</li>
  <li class="number">If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we,</li>
  <li>Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall</li>
  <li>Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,</li>
  <li>I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued;</li>
  <li>Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SELEUCUS</li>
  <li>Here, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,</li>
  <li class="number">Upon his peril, that I have reserved</li>
  <li>To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SELEUCUS</li>
  <li>Madam,</li>
  <li>I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,</li>
  <li>Speak that which is not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">What have I kept back?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SELEUCUS</li>
  <li>Enough to purchase what you have made known.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve</li>
  <li>Your wisdom in the deed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>See, Caesar! O, behold,</li>
  <li class="number">How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours;</li>
  <li>And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine.</li>
  <li>The ingratitude of this Seleucus does</li>
  <li>Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust</li>
  <li>Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt</li>
  <li class="number">Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes,</li>
  <li>Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!</li>
  <li>O rarely base!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Good queen, let us entreat you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,</li>
  <li class="number">That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,</li>
  <li>Doing the honour of thy lordliness</li>
  <li>To one so meek, that mine own servant should</li>
  <li>Parcel the sum of my disgraces by</li>
  <li>Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">That I some lady trifles have reserved,</li>
  <li>Immoment toys, things of such dignity</li>
  <li>As we greet modern friends withal; and say,</li>
  <li>Some nobler token I have kept apart</li>
  <li>For Livia and Octavia, to induce</li>
  <li class="number">Their mediation; must I be unfolded</li>
  <li>With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me</li>
  <li>Beneath the fall I have.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SELEUCUS</li>
  <li>Prithee, go hence;</li>
  <li>Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits</li>
  <li class="number">Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,</li>
  <li>Thou wouldst have mercy on me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Forbear, Seleucus.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit SELEUCUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought</li>
  <li>For things that others do; and, when we fall,</li>
  <li class="number">We answer others' merits in our name,</li>
  <li>Are therefore to be pitied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Cleopatra,</li>
  <li>Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,</li>
  <li>Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,</li>
  <li class="number">Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe,</li>
  <li>Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you</li>
  <li>Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd;</li>
  <li>Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen;</li>
  <li>For we intend so to dispose you as</li>
  <li class="number">Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:</li>
  <li>Our care and pity is so much upon you,</li>
  <li>That we remain your friend; and so, adieu.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>My master, and my lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Not so. Adieu.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not</li>
  <li>Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Whispers CHARMIAN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,</li>
  <li>And we are for the dark.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Hie thee again:</li>
  <li class="number">I have spoke already, and it is provided;</li>
  <li>Go put it to the haste.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Madam, I will.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter DOLABELLA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Where is the queen?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Behold, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Dolabella!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,</li>
  <li>Which my love makes religion to obey,</li>
  <li>I tell you this: Caesar through Syria</li>
  <li>Intends his journey; and within three days</li>
  <li class="number">You with your children will he send before:</li>
  <li>Make your best use of this: I have perform'd</li>
  <li>Your pleasure and my promise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Dolabella,</li>
  <li>I shall remain your debtor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">I your servant,</li>
  <li>Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Farewell, and thanks.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Now, Iras, what think'st thou?</li>
  <li>Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown</li>
  <li class="number">In Rome, as well as I mechanic slaves</li>
  <li>With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall</li>
  <li>Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths,</li>
  <li>Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,</li>
  <li>And forced to drink their vapour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li class="number">The gods forbid!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors</li>
  <li>Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers</li>
  <li>Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians</li>
  <li>Extemporally will stage us, and present</li>
  <li class="number">Our Alexandrian revels; Antony</li>
  <li>Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see</li>
  <li>Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness</li>
  <li>I' the posture of a whore.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>O the good gods!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, that's certain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">IRAS</li>
  <li>I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails</li>
  <li>Are stronger than mine eyes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Why, that's the way</li>
  <li>To fool their preparation, and to conquer</li>
  <li class="number">Their most absurd intents.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Now, Charmian!</li>
  <li>Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch</li>
  <li>My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,</li>
  <li>To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.</li>
  <li class="number">Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;</li>
  <li>And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave</li>
  <li>To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.</li>
  <li>Wherefore's this noise?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit IRAS. A noise within</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Guardsman</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Guard</li>
  <li>Here is a rural fellow</li>
  <li class="number">That will not be denied your highness presence:</li>
  <li>He brings you figs.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Let him come in.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Guardsman</li>
  <li>What poor an instrument</li>
  <li>May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.</li>
  <li class="number">My resolution's placed, and I have nothing</li>
  <li>Of woman in me: now from head to foot</li>
  <li>I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon</li>
  <li>No planet is of mine.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Guard</li>
  <li>This is the man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Avoid, and leave him.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Guardsman</li>
  <li>Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,</li>
  <li>That kills and pains not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party</li>
  <li>that should desire you to touch him, for his biting</li>
  <li class="number">is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or</li>
  <li>never recover.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Rememberest thou any that have died on't?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of</li>
  <li>them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,</li>
  <li class="number">but something given to lie; as a woman should not</li>
  <li>do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the</li>
  <li>biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes</li>
  <li>a very good report o' the worm; but he that will</li>
  <li>believe all that they say, shall never be saved by</li>
  <li class="number">half that they do: but this is most fallible, the</li>
  <li>worm's an odd worm.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Get thee hence; farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>I wish you all joy of the worm.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Setting down his basket</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li class="number">You must think this, look you, that the worm will</li>
  <li>do his kind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Ay, ay; farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the</li>
  <li>keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no</li>
  <li class="number">goodness in worm.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is</li>
  <li>not worth the feeding.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Will it eat me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li class="number">You must not think I am so simple but I know the</li>
  <li>devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a</li>
  <li>woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her</li>
  <li>not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the</li>
  <li>gods great harm in their women; for in every ten</li>
  <li class="number">that they make, the devils mar five.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Well, get thee gone; farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Clown</li>
  <li>Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, etc.</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have</li>
  <li>Immortal longings in me: now no more</li>
  <li class="number">The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:</li>
  <li>Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear</li>
  <li>Antony call; I see him rouse himself</li>
  <li>To praise my noble act; I hear him mock</li>
  <li>The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men</li>
  <li class="number">To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:</li>
  <li>Now to that name my courage prove my title!</li>
  <li>I am fire and air; my other elements</li>
  <li>I give to baser life. So; have you done?</li>
  <li>Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies</li>
  <li>Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?</li>
  <li>If thou and nature can so gently part,</li>
  <li>The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,</li>
  <li>Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?</li>
  <li class="number">If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world</li>
  <li>It is not worth leave-taking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say,</li>
  <li>The gods themselves do weep!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>This proves me base:</li>
  <li class="number">If she first meet the curled Antony,</li>
  <li>He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss</li>
  <li>Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou</li>
  <li>mortal wretch,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To an asp, which she applies to her breast</li>
  <li>With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate</li>
  <li class="number">Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool</li>
  <li>Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,</li>
  <li>That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass</li>
  <li>Unpolicied!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O eastern star!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, peace!</li>
  <li>Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,</li>
  <li>That sucks the nurse asleep?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>O, break! O, break!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLEOPATRA</li>
  <li>As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle —  </li>
  <li class="number">O Antony! — Nay, I will take thee too.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Applying another asp to her arm</li>
  <li>What should I stay — </li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>In this vile world? So, fare thee well.</li>
  <li>Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies</li>
  <li>A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;</li>
  <li class="number">And golden Phoebus never be beheld</li>
  <li>Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;</li>
  <li>I'll mend it, and then play.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Guard, rushing in</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>Where is the queen?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Speak softly, wake her not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar hath sent — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>Too slow a messenger.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Applies an asp</li>
  <li>O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Guard</li>
  <li>There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li class="number">What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARMIAN</li>
  <li>It is well done, and fitting for a princess</li>
  <li>Descended of so many royal kings.</li>
  <li>Ah, soldier!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter DOLABELLA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>How goes it here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Guard</li>
  <li class="number">All dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Caesar, thy thoughts</li>
  <li>Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming</li>
  <li>To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou</li>
  <li>So sought'st to hinder.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Within  'A way there, a way for Caesar!'</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">O sir, you are too sure an augurer;</li>
  <li>That you did fear is done.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Bravest at the last,</li>
  <li>She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,</li>
  <li>Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?</li>
  <li class="number">I do not see them bleed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li>Who was last with them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>A simple countryman, that brought her figs:</li>
  <li>This was his basket.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Poison'd, then.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li class="number">O Caesar,</li>
  <li>This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake:</li>
  <li>I found her trimming up the diadem</li>
  <li>On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood</li>
  <li>And on the sudden dropp'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">O noble weakness!</li>
  <li>If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear</li>
  <li>By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,</li>
  <li>As she would catch another Antony</li>
  <li>In her strong toil of grace.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DOLABELLA</li>
  <li class="number">Here, on her breast,</li>
  <li>There is a vent of blood and something blown:</li>
  <li>The like is on her arm.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Guard</li>
  <li>This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves</li>
  <li>Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the caves of Nile.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>Most probable</li>
  <li>That so she died; for her physician tells me</li>
  <li>She hath pursued conclusions infinite</li>
  <li>Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;</li>
  <li class="number">And bear her women from the monument:</li>
  <li>She shall be buried by her Antony:</li>
  <li>No grave upon the earth shall clip in it</li>
  <li>A pair so famous. High events as these</li>
  <li>Strike those that make them; and their story is</li>
  <li class="number">No less in pity than his glory which</li>
  <li>Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall</li>
  <li>In solemn show attend this funeral;</li>
  <li>And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see</li>
  <li>High order in this great solemnity.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

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